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9781900621625

Information, Media and Power Through the Ages

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    9781900621625

  • ISBN10:

    1900621622

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr

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Summary

Leading Irish and international historians examine the history of information from ancient times to the present day-starting with tyrants and spies in the Greek Polis, and news and information in the papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt. In these sixteen es

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1(12)
Hiram Morgan
Tyrants, spies and the general's dilemma: the ideology of information in the Greek polis
13(16)
Sian Lewis
News and information in the papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt
29(17)
B. C. McGing
Monasteries and manuscripts: the transmission of Latin learning in early medieval Ireland
46(19)
Thomas O'Loughlin
Talking to themselves: lay incursion into official religion in the Christ and the Doctors mystery plays
65(19)
Anthony G. Corbett
The Huguenot diaspora: refugee networks of power
84(12)
Charles C. Ludington
The men who knew too much: the birth of bureaucracy in revolutionary France
96(17)
Ralph Kingston
The life and opinions of Leonard MacNally (1752-1820): playwright, barrister, United Irishman, and informer
113(24)
Thomas Bartlett
The improvement of communication in international freight markets, c.1830-70
137(15)
Yrjo Kaukiainen
Print, politics and Protestantism in an imperial context: New Zealand, c.1769-1870
152(27)
Tony Ballantyne
Informing Empire and nation: publicity, propaganda and the press, 1880-1920
179(23)
C. A. Bayly
Media and power: Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 mission of North America
202(20)
Alan O'Day
Orality lost: the archives of the Irish Folklore Collection and folk historiography of Bliain na bh Francach
222(23)
Guy Beiner
The view from Merrion Square: the American Embassy in Ireland, 1956-66
245(14)
Gary Murphy
'Government sources said last night...': the development of the parliamentary press lobby in modern Ireland
259(13)
John Horgan
Intelligence and the Cold War
272(13)
Christopher Andrew
Communication and political power in the thought of Jurgen Habermas
285(24)
Allen Bass
Contributors to this Volume 309(2)
Index 311

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