Cities and News

This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lila Caimari (Author)

9781108823807, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 March 2022

75 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.14 kg

This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, when everyday information about faraway places found its way into newspapers all over the world. Building on the premise that news carried an unprecedented power to shape representations of the world, it follows this development as it made its way to regular readers beyond the dominant information poles, in the great port-cities of the South American Atlantic. Based on five case studies of typical turn-of-the-century foreign news, Lila Caimari shows how current events opened windows onto distant cities, feeding a new world horizon that was at once wider and eminently urban.

1. Cityscapes in the Age of Global News
2. News of the World
3. The News-City
4. The World that News Created.

Subject Areas: Urban communities [JFSG], General & world history [HBG]