Rise of Western Journalism, 1815-1914

Ross F. Collins is a professor of communication at North Dakota State University, Fargo. E.M. Palmegiano is a professor of history at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Introduction      Australia: Shaking Off the Shackles to Earn the Badge of Independence      Canada’s Victorian Press: Influences from Home and Abroad      Traitorous Collaboration: The Press in France,1815–1914       Germany: Mass-Circulation Newspapers Shaped by an Authoritarian Setting      The “Fourth Estate”: British Journalism in Britain’s Century      Coming of Age: The Growth of the American Media in the Nineteenth Century      Notes on Contributors      Index

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