{"product_id":"comparative-media-history-9780745632421","title":"Comparative Media History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComparative Media History is a unique thematic textbook which introduces students to the key ideas underpinning media development. It is an essential first step to a better understanding of both the media industry today and the way in which it evolved over time. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe textbook compares developments and influences from a broad perspective, highlighting and contrasting different countries, industries and periods of history in order to encourage an understanding of cause and effect. In a style which is clear, accessible and provocative, Jane Chapman argues that most of the roots of today''s media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The book emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe comparative element to this book, both across count\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The user-friendly text—with ‘summaries’ and ‘conclusions’ at intervals—will help students to think for themselves. Meanwhile, general readers will find this a clear introduction to a field of history too significant to be left solely to the specialists.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDonald Read, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a feat of compression and erudite conciseness, \u003ci\u003eComparative Media History\u003c\/i\u003e ranges across several continents and over two centuries of media history to trace the emergence of current international media institutions from past historical traditions. A brilliant textbook for media students, to be ranked alongside Asa Briggs and Peter Burke’s \u003ci\u003eA Social History of the Media\u003c\/i\u003e as a key introduction to comparative media studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Finkelstein, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Comparing developments in seven media industries, five countries and across time, this invaluable book's depth and scope seem unmatched in its field. The book promises to reshape thinking and become a touchstone for future research in media history. Indeed, rarely has a book come across my desk that seemed so likely to so profoundly affect scholarship in a field\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 1. ANTECEDENTS, CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Newspapers, Radicalism, Repression and Economic Change, 1789-1847.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Focusing of Political Communications and Newspaper Business, 1848-81.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 2. POPULARIZATION, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE TRIUMPH OF TECHNOLOGY, 1881-1918.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Commercialization, Consumerism and Technology, 1881-1914.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Politics, New Forms of Communication and the Globalizing Process, 1881-1918.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 3. DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF THE MASSES FORMULA, 1918-1947.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Business and Ideology of Mass Culture, 1918-1939.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: War and Beyond, 1939-1947.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 4. THE GLOBAL AGE, 1948-2002.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Cold War and the Victory of Commercialism, 1948-1980.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Continuity and Change since 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404365898071,"sku":"9780745632421","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/comparative-media-history-9780745632421","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}