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36 - Media and Nationalism: Europe and the USA, 1500–2000

from Part III - Intersections: National(ist) Synergies and Tensions with Other Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Categories, Identities, and Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
Frank Bösch
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Modern techniques of communication have often and from early on been seen as a major precondition for the rise of nationalism and the invention of nations.1 Although many studies have emphasized the relationship between the media and nationalism, it has hardly been analyzed in a broader historical perspective. Media did indeed often propagate national identities or nationalist views. At the same time, they supported national identities, nationalism, and nationhood by creating networks of distribution, a common language and a common situation of simultaneous reception. Therefore, this chapter discusses the media as part of the discursive invention of nations and as a specific infrastructure for the rise of nationalism. At the same time, we have to consider that some media have supported not only nationalism, but also other identities, such as international, regional, or local identities at certain times.

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media historyrevolutionjournalistnewspapertelevisionfilmreading society
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 768 - 788
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Bösch, Frank, Mass Media and Historical Change: Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present (Oxford: Berghahn, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gough, Hugh, The Newspaper Press in the French Revolution (Chicago: Lyceum, 1988).Google Scholar
Hagemann, Karen, “Federkriege, Patriotisch-nationale Meinungsmobilisierung in Preußen in der Zeit der Antinapoleonischen Kriege,” in Sösemann, Bernd (ed.), Kommunikation und Medien in Preußen vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002), 281–302.Google Scholar
Logge, Thorsten, Zur medialen Konstruktion des Nationalen: Die Schillerfeiern 1859 in Europa und Nordamerika (Göttingen: V&R UniPress, 2014).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Volvic, Zala, and Andrejevic, Mark (eds.), Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016).Google Scholar
Zimmermann, Clemens, Medien im Nationalsozialismus: Deutschland 1933–1945, Italien 1922–1943, Spanien 1936–1951 (Vienna: UTB, 2007).Google Scholar

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