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The History of Communication


Acquiring Editor: Daniel Nasset
Series Editors: Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone

This series invites original and well-researched books on the history of media--radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, the Internet--and on their many functions as reporters, advertisers, opinion leaders, public relations for government and corporate interests, and businesses that compete with each other. Histories of major media, biographies of important figures, and studies of key events in communications are welcome. Essay collections are not encouraged.


link to catalog page , Women Making News

Women Making News

Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain

Author: Michelle Elizabeth Tusan
Pub Date: November 2005

Women creating the space for their own political voices in the press   learn more...

link to catalog page , Cultural Politics and the Mass Media Author: Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James
Pub Date: August 2004

Case studies in Alaskan Native political resistance using the media   learn more...

link to catalog page , Fanatics and Fire-eaters

Fanatics and Fire-eaters

Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War

Author: Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
Pub Date: September 2004

Tracing the role of America’s newspapers in the country’s descent into civil war   learn more...

link to catalog page , Media Power in Central America Author: Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus
Pub Date: May 2003

Very readable overview of the media in Central America and its relationship to the region’s existing governments.   learn more...

link to catalog page , The Struggle for Control of Global Communication Author: Jill Hills
Pub Date: November 2002

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link to catalog page , Citizen Critics

Citizen Critics

Literary Public Spheres

Author: Rosa A. Eberly
Pub Date: 2000

The condition of our public discussions about literary and cultural works has much to say about the condition of our democracy and the author argues for more public discourse--in classrooms, newspapers, magazines, etc. to reclaim a public voice on national artistic matters.   learn more...

link to catalog page , E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers Author: Gerald Baldasty
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 1999

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link to catalog page , The Newspaper Indian

The Newspaper Indian

Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90

Author: John M. Coward
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 1999

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link to catalog page , Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Communication Politics in Dubious Times

Author: Robert W. McChesney
Pub Date: 1999

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link to catalog page , Silencing the Opposition

Silencing the Opposition

Antinuclear Movements and the Media in the Cold War

Author: Andrew Rojecki
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 1999

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