Mass Media and Historical Change : : Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present / / Frank Bösch.

Media influenced politics, culture, and everyday life long before the invention of the Internet. This book shows how the advent of new media has changed societies in modern history, focusing not on the specifics of technology but rather on their distribution, use, and impact. Using Germany as an exa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (212 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Approaches to Media History
  • 1. The Breakthrough of Typographic Printing
  • 2. The Establishment of Periodicals
  • 3. The Media and the Road to Modernity
  • 4. Modernity, World Wars and Dictatorships
  • 5. The Media during the Cold War
  • Epilogue: The Internet Age from the Perspective of Media History
  • Bibliography
  • Index