Jan 19 2009 Readings (19th-early 20th Century)

Communication and the Making and Remaking of Capitalism in the 19th and Early 20th Century

Michael Parenti, Blackshirts & REDS: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (San Francisco: City Lights, 1997), Chapter 1, “Rational Fascism,” pp. 1-22.
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2127120 (BOOK)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b1862035~S1a (BOOK)

Armand Mattelart, Networking the world, 1794-2000 (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), Chapters 1-5, pp. 1-73.
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2390319 (BOOK)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2096293~S1a (BOOK)
URL: http://www.sfu.ca/~jkm9/Mattelart-Networking_the_World.pdf (Online Resource)

Patricia Mazepa, “Democracy of, in and Through Communication: Struggles around Public Service in Canada in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” Info 9:2/3 (2007), pp. 45-56.
URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/2720090205.html (Full Text Online)

ALSO

Karl Polanyi,  The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (New York: Beacon Press [1944/1957]).
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03171 (Book Online)

Herbert Schiller. Mass Communications and American Empire, Second Edition (Boulder : Westview Press, 1992).
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3229923  (Book in Okanagan)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b1413618~S1a  (Book)

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Second Edition (New York: Pantheon, 2001).
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=632202 (Book, 3 @UBC)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b5066377~S1a (Book in Surrey)

  1. re Armand Mattelart’s Networking the World:

    The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion?” by Frank Thadeusz, Spiegel Online, 18 AUG 2010. URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710976,00.html

    Indeed, only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time — 10 times fewer than in Germany — and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900.

    Even more startling is the factor Höffner believes caused this development — in his view, it was none other than copyright law, which was established early in Great Britain, in 1710, that crippled the world of knowledge in the United Kingdom.”

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