Giving Meanings to the World : The First U. S. Foreign Correspondents, 1838-1859.

Cover -- Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications -- GIVING MEANINGS TO THE WORLD -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 EXPANDING MEANINGS OF THE "WORLD" -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 EARLY AMERICAN JOURNALISM AND NEWS FROM ABROAD -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 THE SHAPING OF FOREIGN NEWS: IMPROVING ON THE SINGLE ELECTRICIAN AT A SEAPORT TOWN -- THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN NEWS IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEWSPAPERS -- NEWS DIGESTS AS ONE FORM OF FOREIGN NEWS -- FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS DEFINE THEIR ROLE IN A NEW OCCUPATION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 IMAGES OF THE "WORLD" IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY U.S. CULTURE -- CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN EDITORIALS -- CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN FOREIGN POLICY DEBATES -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" -- CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN WOMEN CORRESPONDENTS' WRITINGS -- CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN AN AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 THE EARLIEST AMERICAN FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE: GIVING MEANINGS TO THE WORLD -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BOOKS -- ARTICLES -- UNPUBLISHED SOURCES -- INDEX -- About the Author.

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