Global Publics
Their Power and their Limits, 1870-1990
Published on 28. May 2020
Book
Hardback
423 pages
978-0-19-886577-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume combines a present-day and historical concern on the topic of global publics between the communication revolution of the 1870s and the digital age. Building on earlier theories of public spheres, Valeska Huber and Juergen Osterhammel expand the notion of global publics not only geographically but also by charting new thematic territory, describing global publics as courts of global opinion, as market places, or as arenas for competition. As the first historical volume ever to combine different facets of global publics ranging from infrastructures, the press, film and theatre to human rights politics, it brings together established and emerging authors in the field of history and from related disciplines such as geography, sociology, and literature who explore how global publics were configured, imagined, and fragmented. In this way, Global Publics: Their Power and Their Limits not only provides a new conceptual framework and important case studies but also shows how histories of global communication might be studied in the future.
Reviews / Votes
I could not do justice here to the manifold merits and nuances of this fascinating volume, which has set the stage for a new field of research on global publics both conceptually and methodologically. It constitutes an instant classic for specialists and students in political history, media history, and global history. * Betto van Waarden, Lund University, Connections * It constitutes an instant classic for specialists and students in political history, media history, and global history * Betto van Waarden, Connections * Global Publics is successful in stimulating conceptual discussion. Overall, the contributions make a strong case for using the notion of "global publics." Scholars working in the Habermasian tradition might be interested above all in Huber's and Osterhammel's introduction. Global historians may also want to turn to the essays: they present global publics as fractured and fragile, shaped by power structures and market forces, and only loosely coupled with visions of a global community or world citizenship. In particular, a focus on global publics seems to provide fresh perspectives for studying transnational forms of political mobilisation. * Christoph Streb, Hypotheses *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-886577-3 (9780198865773)
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Persons
Valeska Huber is Head of the Emmy Noether Research Group Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century. She teaches Global History at the Free University Berlin.
Juergen Osterhammel is Emeritus Professor of History at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
Juergen Osterhammel is Emeritus Professor of History at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
Content
- 1: Valeska Huber and Jürgen Osterhammel: Introduction: Global Publics
- Part I: Staging Global Publics
- 2: Simone M. Müller: Media Tycoons and their Global Public: The Case of Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald
- 3: Christopher B. Balme: 'The Local Life of the World': Theatre Publics in the Age of Empire
- 4: Gordon M. Winder: Reaching the Global Public: Going International in a Difficult Market for Film, 1935-1936
- 5: Su Lin Lewis: Asian Women and Global Publics: Interaction, Information, and the City, c.1900-1940
- Part II: Mobilizing Global Publics
- 6: Sophie-Jung H. Kim: An International Event and its Multiple Global Publics: The Parliament of the World's Religions (Chicago, 1893) and Vivekananda
- 7: Steffen Rimner: From the Leak to the League: The Japanese Drug Trade, Global Public Opinion, and Accountability, 1915-1919
- 8: Xu Guoqi: Re-Imaging China through Sport's Global Public
- 9: Robert Brier: The Court of World Opinion: Eastern Europe and Latin America in the Late Modern Global Public of Human Rights
- 10: Andrea Rehling: UNESCO World Heritage and Global Publics between 'Mankind', Global Minds, and World Opinion
- Part III: Conceptualizing Global Publics
- 11: Heidi J. S. Tworek: Digital History and Global Publics
- 12: Tobias Werron: Global Publics as Catalysts of Global Competition: A Sociological View
- 13: Aleida Assmann: Global Publics: Remembering and Forgetting
- Notes on Contributors
- Index