Engines of Influence: Newspapers of Country Victoria, 1840-1890Academic Monographs, 2005 - 366 Seiten Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns. This significant book identifies all press sites and newspapers of the era, whether long-lasting or short-lived, and highlights the major part played by them in helping construct the machinery of government, lay the foundations of party politics and foster a sense of rural Victorian identity. The country press was an important agent of political change leading up to events such as the separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales in 1851, and the federation of the colony of Victoria with other British dependencies into a single nation at the end of the nineteenth century. Engines of Influence shows how country newspapers also exercised cultural authority, circulating ideas generated both within local communities and from the wider world. Towards the end of the fifty years examined, this rural press was becoming a close part of a unified political state, linked through the metropolitan press and agencies to a technologically-based global communications network. |
Inhalt
Newspapers in History | 1 |
Outposts 18401849 | 43 |
A Press for Democracy 18501859 | 68 |
Regional Formations 18601869 | 141 |
Metropolitan Affiliations 18701879 | 187 |
A Country Voice 18801889 | 196 |
68 | 245 |
Appendix B Alphabetical Index to Numbered | 334 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
activity Advocate agricultural April Ararat Argus August Australasian Typographical Journal Bacchus Marsh Beechworth Belfast Bendigo Advertiser Berry British cable Castlemaine Chiltern Chronicle circulation Cloher Colac copies country newspapers country papers country press Courier Creswick daily David Syme Daylesford decade December Directory district Echuca editorial evidence of publication Express Gazette Geelong Advertiser George Gippsland Guardian goldfields goldrush Hamilton Herald Ibid issue January journalist July June Kerang Kilmore Kyneton labour land later Leader Legislative Library of Victoria Maps Maryborough Melbourne Melbourne papers ment metropolitan mining Mount Alexander Mail Murray Advertiser November October Ovens and Murray parliament parliamentary Pleasant Creek political population Port Albert Port Phillip Gazette Portland Bay Portland Guardian Portland Mercury press sites printers printing proprietor provincial published railway reported Sandhurst Sands September settlement Shepparton South Wales Standard Sydney Telegraph Thomson & Serle tion towns Victorian country Wangaratta Warrnambool weekly Wimmera