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Cities and News

Lila Caimari author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th Mar '22

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This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It shows how current events opened windows onto distant cities, feeding a new world horizon that was at once wider and eminently urban.This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, when everyday information about faraway places found its way into newspapers all over the world. Building on the premise that news carried an unprecedented power to shape representations of the world, it follows this development as it made its way to regular readers beyond the dominant information poles, in the great port-cities of the South American Atlantic. Based on five case studies of typical turn-of-the-century foreign news, Lila Caimari shows how current events opened windows onto distant cities, feeding a new world horizon that was at once wider and eminently urban.

ISBN: 9781108823807

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 5mm

Weight: 140g

75 pages