The media in America
Subtitle: a history
By: editor, Wm. David Sloan
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Vision Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Northport, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 521
ISBN-13: 9781885219343
Subjects: Mass media; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins of mass communication; title: Printing in America, 1600-1690; title: The colonial press, 1690-1765; title: The Revolutionary press, 1765-1783; title: The party press, 1783-1833; title: Freedom of the press, 1690-1804; title: The penny press, 1833-1861; title: The antebellum press, 1820-1861; title: The press and the Civil War, 1861-1865; title: The frontier press, 1800-1900; title: The press and industrial America, 1865-1883; title: The age of new journalism, 1883-1900; title: American magazines, 1740-1900; title: The development of advertising, 1700-1900; title: The emergence of modern media, 1900-1945; title: The media and reform, 1900-1917; title: The media and national crises, 1917-1945; title: Radio comes of age, 1900-1945; title: The entertainment media, 1900-present; title: The age of mass magazines, 1900-present; title: Modern advertising, 1900-present; title: Public relations, 1900-present; title: The media in transition, 1945-1974; title: The news media, 1974-2000; title: The contemporary media, 2000-present.