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The first historical exploration of global publics, the volume describes the development of global publics from the late nineteenth-century communication revolution to the pre-digital era. It provides geographically wide-ranging case studies that explore global publics in such diverse fields as sports, film, theatre, drug control and human rights.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
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.
Jürgen Osterhammel is Emeritus Professor of History at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
Riassunto
The first historical exploration of global publics, the volume describes the development of global publics from the late nineteenth-century communication revolution to the pre-digital era. It provides geographically wide-ranging case studies that explore global publics in such diverse fields as sports, film, theatre, drug control and human rights.
Testo aggiuntivo
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.
