Andrew Pettegree. The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 445 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-17908-8.
Reviewed by Jon Marshall (Northwestern University)
Published on Jhistory (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Donal Harris. On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 304 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17772-6.
Reviewed by Donna Harrington-Lueker (Salve Regina University)
Published on Jhistory (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Finis Dunaway. Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 344 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-16990-3.
Reviewed by Cory J. Pillen (Fort Lewis College Department of Art and Design)
Published on Jhistory (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Stephen Lovell. Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 272 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-872526-8.
Reviewed by Noah Arceneaux (School of Media and Journalism Studies, San Diego State University)
Published on Jhistory (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Communism on the Air: Arceneaux on Lovell, Russia in the Microphone Age
Sudhir Mahadevan. A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India, 1840-1930. Albany: SUNY Press, 2015. 256 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-5829-8.
Reviewed by Eugenia M. Palmegiano (St. Peter's University)
Published on Jhistory (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Courtney Baker. Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 160 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03948-5.
Reviewed by Patricia M. Muhammad (B.Sc., J.D.) (Independent Scholar)
Published on Jhistory (April, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
J. Justin Castro. Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Illustrations. 280 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8032-8678-8; $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-6844-9.
Reviewed by Sarah Foss (Indiana University)
Published on Jhistory (March, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Fred Turner. The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 376 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-81746-0; $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-32589-7.
Reviewed by Katie Simpson (University of California-San Diego)
Published on Jhistory (March, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Kevin G. Barnhurst. Mister Pulitzer and the Spider: Modern News from Realism to the Digital. History of Communication Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 320 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-09840-6.
Reviewed by Philip Glende (Indiana State University)
Published on Jhistory (March, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
John M. Coward. Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press. History of Communication Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Illustrations. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08171-2; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04026-9.
Alexa Robertson. Media and Politics in a Globalizing World. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. xiv + 239 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7456-5469-0; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7456-5470-6.
Reviewed by W. Joe Watson (Baker University)
Published on Jhistory (February, 2017)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Toward an Understanding of Global Media, Politics, and Research
Mark B. N. Hansen. Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 320 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-19972-6; $89.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-19969-6.
Reviewed by Thomas Conner (University of California San Diego)
Published on Jhistory (December, 2016)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
John Richard Moores. Representations of France in English Satirical Prints 1740-1832. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. 261 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-38013-5.
Reviewed by Padraig Lawlor (Perdue University)
Published on Jhistory (November, 2016)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
James M. Morris. Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press. New York: Amistad, 2015. 466 pp. $27.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-06-219885-3.
Reviewed by Kimberley Mangun (University of Utah)
Published on Jhistory (November, 2016)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
Ethel Payne’s Reporting Career Spanned Four Decades
James L. Underwood. Deadly Censorship: Murder, Honor, and Freedom of the Press. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. 328 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61117-299-7.
Reviewed by Evan Rothera (Penn State University)
Published on Jhistory (November, 2016)
Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
