The Edinburgh history of the British and Irish press. Volume 2, Expansion and evolution, 1800-1900 / edited by David Finkelstein.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 849 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
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- History of the British and Irish press
- Expansion and evolution, 1800-1900
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- This is a collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history during a key period of change and development.
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- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Contributor Biographies
- Introduction
- PART I: Press and Periodical Economics
- 1. The Economics of Press and Periodical Production
- PART II: Production and Distribution
- 2. Production
- 3. The Evolution of Image-Making Industries and the Mid- to Late Victorian Press
- PART III: Readership and Distribution
- 4. Readership and Distribution
- PART IV: Identities and Communities
- 5. Cultural Agents and Contexts: The Professionalisation of Journalism
- PART V: Legal Frameworks
- 6. Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century
- PART VI: Themed Chapters
- 7. The English-Language Press in Continental Europe
- 8. Transnational Exchanges
- 9. Literary and Review Journalism
- 10. ‘One language is quite sufficient for the mass’: Metropolitan Journalism, the British State and the ‘Vernacular’ Periodical Press in Wales, 1840–1914
- 11. The Scottish Gaelic Press
- 12. The Irish-Language Press: ‘A tender plant at the best of times’?
- 13. The Nineteenth-Century Denominational Press
- 14. Comics, Cartoons and the Illustrated Press
- 15. The Satirical Press
- 16. The Medical Press and Its Public
- 17. Science and the Press
- 18. The Business Press
- 19. The Press and Radical Expression: Structure and Dissemination
- 20. The Political Press
- 21. The Trade and Professional Press
- 22. The Leisure and Hobby Press
- 23. The Sporting Press
- 24. The Children’s Press
- 25. The Women’s Press
- 26. The Provincial, Local and Regional Press
- Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1800–1900
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
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- 9781474424905
- 1-3995-0217-4
- 1-4744-2490-2
- OCLC:
- 1312727254
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