Information, Media and Power through the Ages Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Tyrants, spies and the general's dilemma: the ideology of information in the Greek polis	13
2	News and information in the papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt	29
3	Monasteries and manuscripts: the transmission of Latin learning in early medieval Ireland	46
4	Talking to themselves: lay incursion into official religion in the Christ and the Doctors mystery plays	65
5	The Huguenot diaspora: refugee networks of power	84
6	The men who knew too much: the birth of bureaucracy in revolutionary France	96
7	The life and opinions of Leonard MacNally (1752-1820): playwright, barrister, United Irishman, and informer	113
8	The improvement of communication in international freight markets, c.1830-70	137
9	Print, politics and Protestantism in an imperial context: New Zealand, c. 1769-1870	152
10	Informing Empire and nation: publicity, propaganda and the press, 1880-1920	179
11	Media and power: Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 mission to North America	202
12	Orality lost: the archives of the Irish Folklore Collection and folk historiography of Bliain na bhFrancach	222
13	The view from Merrion Square: the American Embassy in Ireland, 1956-66	245
14	'Government sources said last night ...': the development of the parliamentary press lobby in modern Ireland	259
15	Intelligence and the Cold War	272
16	Communication and political power in the thought of Jurgen Habermas	285
	Contributors to this Volume	309
	Index	311