The first book to compare and contrast the rise of mass circulation press in Britain and America. It provides insights into the origins of tabloid journalism and explores a range of cross-cultural and literary issues, tracing the history of key newspapers and the careers of influential journalists such as Bennett, Russell, Harmsworth and Pulitzer.

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Winner of the 2012 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize

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the City University of New York, USA

Joel H. Wiener

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JOEL H. WIENER is Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York, USA. He has published and edited many books and articles on British press history and aspects of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century British History. His books include The War of the Unstamped (1969) and Papers for the Millions: the New Journalism in Britain, 1850s to 1914 (1988). Professor Wiener is also a former president of the Research Society for British Periodicals.

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Book Title: The Americanization of the British Press, 1830s-1914
Book Subtitle: Speed in the Age of Transatlantic Journalism
Authors: Joel H. Wiener
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230347953
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-58186-9Published: 03 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-34795-3Published: 03 October 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 253
Topics: Media Studies, US History, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of the Americas, Social History

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