Introduction
PART I - International Broadcasting: Peace, Propaganda, and War
1: Pulling Down the Walls of the World, 1920-1930
2: Fraternising in the Ether, 1931-1933
3: Rivalry and Competition, 1934-1937
4: Wireless Nationalism, 1938-1939
PART II - Producing and Listening to International Radio
5: The Lonely Listener in the Bush: BBC Empire Service Programmes
and Audiences
6: The Shocktroops of Propaganda: BBC News for Overseas
Listeners
7: Distant Listening
Conclusions
Simon J. Potter is Professor of Modern History at the University of
Bristol. He has published widely on the history of the mass media
and the history of empire, and his work brings together themes,
ideas, and debates from these two fields. He has also written
extensively on the wider historiographies of the British Empire and
the British World, and on recent developments in Global History.
His publications include Broadcasting Empire: the BBC and the
British
World, 1922-1970 (2012), British Imperial History (2015), and News
and the British World: the Emergence of an Imperial Press System,
1876-1922 (2003). He has led a Leverhulme Trust International
Network on
global radio history and worked with heritage groups in Bristol on
public engagement with the legacies of empire.
Potter's book provides a refreshing contrast to transnational
histories that focus solely on diplomacy and statecraft, examining
what he terms 'wireless internationalism' (3) and the phenomenon of
distant listening through the eyes -- and ears -- of its
practitioners ... We can only hope that books like this will
encourage more historians to adopt a cultural approach to the
history of internationalism.
*Courteney E. Smith, European Review of History*
This superbly researched monograph covers familiar ground to
historians of mass communication...Recommended.
*D.L. LeMahieu, Lake Forest College, CHOICE*
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