Atlantic Communications The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the... Book

	Notes on contributors
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Spreading "good tidings" at home and abroad : media and mediators during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
1	Evangelical revivals as communicative spheres in the colonial era	15
2	Bridging the gap : cultural mediators and the structure of transatlantic communication	45
3	Te deum for victory : communicating victories through sermons, illuminations and gun salute	65
4	On forms of communications : a commentary	87
5	Spreading "good tidings" in various ways : how sovereigns, Furly, and Whitefield used the media that suited their messages best	93
Pt. II	Narrowing Atlantic distances : communication in the age of the telegraph
6	The telegraph and transatlantic communication relations	107
7	Diplomatic telegraphy in American and German history	135
8	"slender bridges" of misunderstanding : the social legacy of transatlantic cable communications	153
9	Producing and consuming knowledge : comparative perspectives on the development and usage of the telegraph in nineteenth-century Germany and America	171
Pt. III	Journalism and the problem of modernity
10	Modernization and its discontents : hopelessness and middle-class media in the United States, 1850-1930	183
11	Protesting against "America" as the icon of modernity : the reception of muckraking in Germany	205
12	Who is afraid of modernity? Germany and the United States in the era of the penny press	225
13	Muckraking in Germany and Austria : a unique tradition?	239
Pt. IV	Producing and consuming radio : political and social dimensions
14	Radio days : did radio change social life in Germany and the United States?	247
15	Broadcasting freedom : radio, big band swing and the popular music of World War II	271
16	Radio nations : the importance of transnational media study	299
17	Radio as dispositif : the history of the yet-to-be-written user manuals	309
Pt. V	Television and public memory : communicating the past at the beginning of the twenty-first century
18	The Holocaust on screen : speculations on an American motion picture genre	323
19	The radicalization of German memory in the age of its commercial reproduction : Hitler and the Third Reich in the TV documentaries of Guido Knopp	335
20	Between media history and the history of social communication	373
21	"Vergangenheitsbewaltigung" : mastering the "Holokaust" in, through and with film	387
	Select bibliography	405
	Index of names	463
	Index of places	469