Rise of Western Journalism, 1815-1914 Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States
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Ross F. Collins is a professor of communication at North Dakota State University, Fargo. E.M. Palmegiano is a professor of history at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey.“most intriguing...recommended”—<i>Choice.</i>
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.
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