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Comparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3243-8
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320 pages
July 2005, Polity
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Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

PART 1. ANTECEDENTS, CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES.

Chapter 1: Newspapers, Radicalism, Repression and Economic Change, 1789-1847.

Chapter 2: The Focusing of Political Communications and Newspaper Business, 1848-81.

PART 2. POPULARIZATION, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE TRIUMPH OF TECHNOLOGY, 1881-1918.

Chapter 3: Commercialization, Consumerism and Technology, 1881-1914.

Chapter 4: Politics, New Forms of Communication and the Globalizing Process, 1881-1918.

PART 3. DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF THE MASSES FORMULA, 1918-1947.

Chapter 5: The Business and Ideology of Mass Culture, 1918-1939.

Chapter 6: War and Beyond, 1939-1947.

PART 4. THE GLOBAL AGE, 1948-2002.

Chapter 7: Cold War and the Victory of Commercialism, 1948-1980.

Chapter 8: Continuity and Change since 1980.

Notes.

References and Bibliography.

Index