Jan 12 2009 Readings (Pre-19th Century)

Capitalism, Communications, and Control in a Historical (and Western-Centric) Perspective

Elen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (Verso, 2002). URL:
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2505955~S1a (Book)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b1979062~S1a (Book)
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2606486 (Book)
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2240614 (Book)

Peter Linbaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000), Chapter 1, “The Wreck of the Sea-Venture,” pp. 8-35.
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2412363 (Book)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2077662~S1a (Book)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b4574103~S1a (Online Resource)

James Curran, “Capitalism and Control of the Press” in James Curran, Media and Power (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 79-103.
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3891490 (Online Resource)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b3155047~S1a (Online Resource)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b5357596~S1a (Online Resource)
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2611351~S1a (Book)

ALSO

Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike, Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1780-1930 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).
URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b5160501~S1a (Book)
URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3813544 (Book @ Okanagan)