By: Michael Harris (Editor), Tom O'Malley (Editor)

Hardcover

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This second annual review of international newspaper and periodical history is a further continuation of the "Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History." Michael Harris and Tom O'Malley have brought together a broad collection of perspectives about newspaper and periodical reporting from the 17th to 20th centuries. This annual also describes important sources, gives a succinct annual review of newspaper history, and reviews noteworthy new books in newspaper and periodical history. It is an essential source for historians and teachers of media and communications courses.

This volume discusses 17th-century newsbooks, Walpole's management of political opinion, publication of the "Universal Museum" about booksellers, and reports on a treason trial in the 18th century. The annual goes on to analyze how the British press was Americanized from 1830 to 1914, analyzes the Dreyfus case in "Le Matin" as well as newspaper-reading by British forces in World War I. This annual also describes important sources, gives a succinct annual review of newspaper history, and reviews noteworthy new books in newspaper and periodical history. It is an essential source for historians and teachers of media and communications courses.

Preface
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Great Assises Holden in Parnassus: The Reputation and Reality of Seventeenth-Century Newsbooks
"The Premier Scribbler Himself": Sir Robert Walpole and the Management of Political Opinion
"Ten or a Dozen Bestsellers": The Publication of the Universal Museum in 1762
Reporting a Treason Trial in 1798
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries The Americanization of the British Press, 1830-1914
Bunanu-Varilla and the Dreyfus Case: Le Matin's Publication of the Bordereau
"You Can't Believe a Word You Read": Newspaper-reading in the British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1918
"Selling the Pass": The Daily Herald and the 1923 Dock Strike
Sources for Newspaper and Periodical History Records of the Establishment of The London Daily Advertiser in 1751
Sources for Newspaper History in the National Register of Archives
Newspaper Archives: A Legacy of Indifference
Music Journalism and the Public Sphere in Stockholm, 1780
Annual Review of Work in Newspaper History
Reviews
Index
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ISBN: 9780313290510
ISBN-10: 0313290512
Series: Newspaper & Periodical History
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 23rd August 1996
Publisher: ABC-Clio
Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 16.3  x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.544