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This compilation of essays examines the rise of Western journalism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Offering a cross-cultural record of the Western print media's growth, it devotes individual chapters to each of six countries: Great Britain, France, the United States, Canada, Australia and Germany. Each chapter focuses on the principal trends and chief personnel essential to journalistic development in that country, and incorporates analysis of how that country's journalists influenced, or were influenced by, journalists from outside its borders. A comprehensive bibliography is included for each chapter.
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A compilation of essays that examines the rise of Western journalism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Offering a cross-cultural record of the Western print media's growth, this work devotes individual chapters to each of six countries: Great Britain, France, the United States, Canada, Australia and Germany.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Australia: Shaking Off the Shackles to Earn the Badge of Independence
Canada’s Victorian Press: Influences from Home and Abroad
Traitorous Collaboration: The Press in France,1815–1914
Germany: Mass-Circulation Newspapers Shaped by an Authoritarian Setting
The “Fourth Estate”: British Journalism in Britain’s Century
Coming of Age: The Growth of the American Media in the Nineteenth Century
Notes on Contributors
Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780786431434
Publisert
2007-09-13
Utgiver
Vendor
McFarland & Co Inc
Vekt
299 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet