Betto van Waarden
bettovanwaarden.bsky.social
Betto van Waarden
@bettovanwaarden.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History @ Maastricht University | transnational history of politics & mass media | time and politics | disinformation and democracy
My new book is now out in print:

POLITICIANS AND MASS MEDIA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE
Examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician and system of transnational media politics between 1890 and World War I.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
A short blog article about my research:

DEMOCRACY EXPANDED OR ERODED? ‘Publicity Politicians’ and the Transnational Media Politics of Empire

cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/demo...
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My new article on political broadcasting, available on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../10.1111/...
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
discount code for my new book
June 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
‘The Communication of Fame’, a chapter I wrote for our new book A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Revolution, edited by Eva Giloi: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

If anyone would like a digital copy, let me know 😊
June 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
my new book on Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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June 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM