The media in America
Subtitle: a history
By: editor, Wm. David Sloan.
Contributors: Sloan, W. David 1947-
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Vision Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Northport, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
Subjects: Mass media -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Origins of mass communication -- -- 2.; title: Printing in America, 1600-1690 -- -- 3.; title: The colonial press, 1690-1765 -- -- 4.; title: The Revolutionary press, 1765-1783 -- -- 5.; title: The party press, 1783-1833 -- -- 6.; title: Freedom of the press, 1690-1804 -- -- 7.; title: The penny press, 1833-1861 -- -- 8.; title: The antebellum press, 1820-1861 -- -- 9.; title: The press and the Civil War, 1861-1865 -- -- 10.; title: The frontier press, 1800-1900 -- -- 11.; title: The press and industrial America, 1865-1883 -- -- 12.; title: The age of new journalism, 1883-1900 -- -- 13.; title: American magazines, 1740-1900 -- -- 14.; title: The development of advertising, 1700-1900 -- -- 15.; title: The emergence of modern media, 1900-1945 -- -- 16.; title: The media and reform, 1900-1917 -- -- 17.; title: The media and national crises, 1917-1945 -- -- 18.; title: Radio comes of age, 1900-1945 -- -- 19.; title: The entertainment media, 1900-present -- -- 20.; title: The age of mass magazines, 1900-present -- -- 21.; title: Modern advertising, 1900-present -- -- 22.; title: Public relations, 1900-present -- -- 23.; title: The media in transition, 1945-1974 -- -- 24.; title: The contemporary media, 1974-present.