Mass Media and Historical Change. Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present

74 | Mass Media and Historical Change up in Germany after 1835, or the regular use of carrier pigeons, that had long been employ ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 75 next in importance was the National-Zeitung. The Deutscher Zuschauer from Mannheim, how ...

76 | Mass Media and Historical Change ignorance of the citizenry and the incompetence of politicians both old and new also betra ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 77 Politics and Society in the Age of Magazines and the Popular Press Many things have bee ...

78 | Mass Media and Historical Change Kohnen 1995: 111). In Vienna and Austria, however, it was only when the ‘newspaper stamp’ ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 79 illustrated family weeklies that tended to avoid politics in the narrower sense. The Il ...

80 | Mass Media and Historical Change single parties so as to be able to address a broad readership. In actual fact they often s ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 81 independence than on the Continent. Consequently, the post-1880s British press saw itse ...

82 | Mass Media and Historical Change getting journalistic training on a professional footing progressed slowly. The Ecole Supér ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 83 typesetters were viewed as probable candidates for mental hospitals (Radkau 1998: 242). ...

84 | Mass Media and Historical Change even children were sold as ‘white slaves’. This triggered mass protests number- ing 150,00 ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 85 in the years around 1900 held demonstrations aimed at the media and com- mitted selecti ...

86 | Mass Media and Historical Change Tarbell’s spectacular articles denouncing Rockefeller’s oil trust and damaging his reputat ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 87 deep crisis (Bösch 2009: 373–93). The German Kaiser Wilhelm II was able to mesmerise hi ...

88 | Mass Media and Historical Change Demarcation lines between politics and journalism continued to be quite fluid. The enhance ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 89 written correspondence and personal meetings between politicians and jour- nalists, and ...

90 | Mass Media and Historical Change party base whose very formation as such was often the result of reading the same papers. I ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 91 source-based studies about the great publishers and journalists exist (anec- dotal: Men ...

92 | Mass Media and Historical Change Telegraphy Previous studies on world history and globalisation have stressed media change ...

The Media and the Road to Modernity | 93 United States as never before. Because of its network character, telegraphy was declare ...