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Giving Meanings to the World The First U.S. Foreign Correspondents, 1838-1859
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Giovanna Dell'Orto
ISBN: 0-313-32290-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32290-7
162 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: How did the first United States foreign correspondents help shape an American common sense about the rest of the world? This new study is the first to address this key question, examining the images of foreign countries that emerge from the first formally organized American foreign correspondence. Its focus is on the discourses of the world constructed in mid-19th-century correspondence, which provided American newspaper readers with their first cohesive view of the world outside its borders. By emphasizing the emergence of foreign correspondence across its first two decades (1838-1859), and by comparing it to images in editorial and congressional debates of the time, Giovanna Dell'Orto's analysis addresses the pivotal question of what meanings were ascribed to foreign cultures during this key time.

Giving Meanings to the World also establishes for the first time in scholarly literature the early history of the content of foreign news and editorials in American newspapers while also exploring alternative constructions of foreign cultures in the correspondence for an African-American newspaper and by women writers. Unique in both subject matter and approach, this work gathers together and puts into perspective an array of information and discussion about how America viewed other nations in the early days of foreign correspondence.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Expanding Meanings of the World
    Early American Journalism and News from Abroad
    The Shaping of Foreign News: Improving on the Single Electrician at a Seaport Town
    Images of the "World" in Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. Culture
    Constructions of the "World" in the Mainstream Press
    Alternative Constructions of the "World"
    The Earliest American Foreign Correspondence: Giving Meanings to the "World"
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO has experienced first-hand the intricacies of intercultural exchanges of meaning by working for the Associated Press in Rome, Italy, and along the U.S./Mexican border in Arizona. Fluent in four languages, she has travelled extensively across western Europe and the Americas.
LCC Class: 70
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