Atlantic communications : the media in American and German history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / edited by Norbert Finzsch and Ursula Lehmkuhl.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2004.
Description
xiii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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    Series
    Germany and the United States of America [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Atlantic Communications examines the historical development of communications technology and its impact on German-American relations from the seventeenth of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Spreading "good tidings" at home and abroad: media and mediators during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
    • Narrowing Atlantic distances: communication in the age of the telegraph
    • Journalism and the problem of modernity
    • Producing and consuming radio: political and social dimensions
    • Television and public memory: communicating the past at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
    ISBN
    • 1859736793 ((cloth))
    • 9781859736791 ((cloth))
    LCCN
    2004008965
    OCLC
    55019486
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