The History of Communication

Acquiring Editor: Kendra Boileau

Series Editor: 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.



  • STOLE, Inger L. :  Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s

  • EBERLY, Rosa A. :  Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres

  • NORD, David Paul :  Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers

  • DAWSON, Michael :  The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life

  • DALEY, Patrick J. and Beverly A. James:  Cultural Politics and the Mass Media: Alaska Native Voices

  • ALLEN, David S. :  Democracy, Inc.: The Press and Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere

  • BALDASTY, Gerald :  E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers

  • WELKY, David :  Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression

  • RATNER, Lorman A. and Dwight L. Teeter Jr.:  Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War

  • STOLTZFUS, Duane C. S. :  Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment

  • UNDERWOOD, Doug :  From Yahweh to Yahoo!: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press

  • BEZANSON, Randall P. :  How Free Can the Press Be?

  • RAPHAEL, Chad :  Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary

  • EHRLICH, Matthew C. :  Journalism in the Movies

  • NERONE, Edited by John C. :  Last Rights: Revisiting *Four Theories of the Press*

  • ROCKWELL, Rick and Noreene Janus:  Media Power in Central America

  • ZHAO, Yuezhi :  Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line

  • COWARD, John M. :  The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90

  • KUMAR, Deepa :  Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike

  • BRENNEN, Edited by Bonnie and Hanno Hardt:  Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography

  • DANKY, Edited by James P. and Wayne A. Wiegand:  Print Culture in a Diverse America

  • LLOYD, Mark :  Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America

  • MCCHESNEY, Robert W. :  Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times

  • ZACHER, Dale E. :  The Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914-18

  • FONES-WOLF, Elizabeth A. :  Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60

  • ROJECKI, Andrew :  Silencing the Opposition: Antinuclear Movements and the Media in the Cold War

  • STEIN, Laura :  Speech Rights in America: The First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media

  • HILLS, Jill :  The Struggle for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century

  • CAREY, Alex :  Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty

  • HILLS, Jill :  Telecommunications and Empire

  • FONES-WOLF, Elizabeth :  Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio

  • GODFRIED, Nathan :  WCFL, Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-78

  • RUFF, Allen :  "We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publisher

  • TUSAN, Michelle Elizabeth :  Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain

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