This history of English language journalism abroad is exceptional and unique, revealing a teeming layer of a transnational press worldwide, in Asia, the Levant, Europe, Latin America. Compelling in scope and detail, its formal scrutiny of journalism also makes it a foundational text for all students of media and culture.

- Laurel Brake, Birkbeck, University of London:,

This volume explores the nineteenth-century transnational British press published in non-Anglophone countries across Europe, the Levant, the Mediterranean, Asia and Latin America during a key period of press development and of British expansionism. Edited by an international research team, the twenty-five original essays contribute significantly to recent periodicals scholarship by bringing under study long-ignored publications and analysing them within both their global and local historical, cultural, technological and journalistic contexts. Adopting an approach that focuses on networks, circulation and exchange to draw the outlines of this transnational press formation, it pays special attention to the international trajectories and intercultural competencies of their editors and staff, the function this press fulfilled for the British expatriate communities and their host societies and its status within the local, British and global media ecosystems. In turn, it highlights the circulation and adaptation of press models across borders and broadens our understanding of what constituted the nineteenth-century British press.
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The first comprehensive study of the English-language press published in non-Anglophone countries.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributor Biographies Introduction: Circulation, Community, Connection Diana Cooper-Richet and Isabelle Richet PART I. Europe Introduction: Diversity, Community and Exchange Isabelle Richet 1. Uncovering the English-Language Press Published in the French-Speaking Countries of Europe (Belgium, France, Switzerland) Diana Cooper-Richet 2. ‘May the Best Paper Win’: The Culture of Rivalry between American and British Daily Newspapers in Paris Colette Colligan 3. Galignani’s Messenger: The Making of an English-Language Newspaper in Paris (1814–50) Diana Cooper-Richet 4. May Birkhead, an American Journalist in Paris Nissa Ren Cannon 5. The English-Language Press Published in Italy: Cultural Cosmopolitanism, Tourism and Economic Niches Isabelle Richet 6. Two Women Periodical Editors in Italy: Helen Zimmern and Fanny Zampini Salazar Isabelle Richet 7. The German Anglophone Press in the Long Nineteenth Century Michael Lörch PART II. The Levant Introduction: Geostrategy, Commerce and Evangelization Isabelle Richet 8. Reporting on the Imperial Worlds: The Levant Herald and The Constantinople Messenger in the Ottoman Empire Burhan Çağlar 9. Ascending to the Helm of the English-Language Levantine Press in Constantinople: James C. McCoan to Edgar Whitaker Burhan Çağlar 10. British Imperialism, the Telegraph and the Press Agencies in the Ottoman Empire of the Late Nineteenth Century: The Case of The Levant Herald Gioula Koutsopanagou 11. Tidings From Zion – A Missionary Monthly in Jerusalem (1882–85) and the “Artuf Affair” Gideon Kouts PART III. The Mediterranean and the Canary Islands Introduction: Zones of Influence Diana Cooper-Richet 12. A Newspaper for the Garrison: The Gibraltar Chronicle (1800–1914) Concha Langa-Nuño and Maria José Ruiz-Acosta 13. Two English Newspapermen in Algeria (1885–1915) Diana Cooper-Richet 14. A Contribution to the History of the English--Language Press in Cyprus (1878–1914) Niki Soki and Klimis Mastoridis 15. The British Press in the Canaries: Society, Culture and Education in The Tenerife News (1891) and The Canary Islands Review (1903-04) Antonio S. Almeida-Aguiar and María-Isabel González-Cruz 16. The Egyptian Gazette: Unofficial Gazette for an Unofficial Occupation Will Hanley PART IV. Asia Introduction: Treaty Port Journalism Diana Cooper-Richet 17. The English-Language Press in China and the Colonial Origins of Global News Aled Gruffydd Jones 18. The English-Language Commercial Press in Nineteenth-Century China: Canton, Macao and Hong Kong Iside Costantini 19. The English-Language Press in Meiji Japan James L. Huffman and Peter O’Connor 20. The English-Language Press in Korea (1892–1908) Laurent Quisefit PART V. Latin America Introduction: Community Building and Commercial Expansion Jennifer Hayward and Michelle Prain-Brice 21. The English Language Press on South America's West Coast: Circulation, Networks and Exchanges Michelle Prain-Brice 22. English-Language Publications in Argentina (1826–1915) Alina Silveira 23. Civil War and Uncivil Nationalism: The Britannia and Montevideo Reporter and Informal Empire in Latin America Jessie Reeder 24. English-Language Newspapers in Rio de Janeiro Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos 25. The Nineteenth-Century English-Language Newspapers of Valparaiso, Chile Jennifer Hayward Bibliography Index
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Takes an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the socio-cultural, economic and technological conditions of the emergence of this press

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399524360
Publisert
2025-07-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

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Diana Cooper-Richet is Senior Researcher at the Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and the founder of the Transfopress network. She has written extensively on the English-Language press in France and Europe. Her recent publications include: ‘English-Language Periodicals in Parisian Reading Rooms and the Cross-Channel Transfer of Editorial Innovation’, in Cultural History, 10, n° 2 (2021), ‘The English-Language Press in Continental Europe’ in The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press. Expansion and Evolution (1800-1900), edited by David Finkelstein (2020); and La France Anglaise de la Révolution à nos jours (2018). Isabelle Richet is Professor Emerita at Université Paris Cité where she taught in the English-Studies Department. She is a member of the steering committee of the Transfopress Network. She has written extensively on the British in Italy and their press. Among her recent publications: ‘Standing on the edge of two cultural worlds: The English-Language Press in Italy’, Media History, 28, 2 (Spring 2022); ‘English-Language Periodicals and Reading Rooms in Ninetten-Century Italy as Spaces of Intercultural Contact and Exchange’, Cultural History 10, n° 2, 2021; Women, Antifascism and Mussolini’s Italy: The Life of Marion Cave Rosselli (2018). Jennifer Hayward is Professor of English and Global Media and Digital Studies at the College of Wooster, USA. She is co-director of the Anglophone Chile Project, a digital archive of the English Press in 19th Century Chile and has published widely on the British in 19th Century Latin America. Michelle Prain-Brice is Professor of Literature at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez´s Liberal Arts Faculty, Chile. Her research focuses on British nineteenth and twentieth century culture and Anglo-Chilean heritage. She is a co-director of the Anglophone Chile project, a digital archive of the English press in 1çth Century Chile, Among her recent publications: ‘The Valparaiso (Chile) Anglophone Periodical Press: Voices from the Borders of Empire’, Journal of European Periodical Studies 7, n° 1 (2021); ‘Imagining the Araucanians in nineteenth century British and Chilean Press”, Victorian Periodicals Review,54, n° 3 (2021).