TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,Michèle
TI  - Images at War: Illustrated Periodicals and Constructed Nations 
SN  - 9780802037572
AV  - DC326.5.P74 
U1  - 070.4/9/09409034 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Canada
KW  - Europe
KW  - Illustrated periodicals
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Using the press coverage of the Franco-Prussian war as a starting point, Michèle Martin?s Images at War examines nineteenth-century illustrated periodicals published in France, Germany, England, and Canada (with references also to Italy and the United States), and argues that periodicals during this period worked to reinforce particular national identities.Images in periodicals played an essential role in how the concept of nationalism was expressed and reproduced, usually by pitting cultures and countries against one another. These illustrated periodicals helped to shape nations where nations had not previously existed ? such as with Germany, Italy, and Canada, which were only just coming into their own as states. In war, Martin observes, these documents also represented a non-verbal method of communicating emotionally trying, politically challenging, and oftentimes contradictory information to the public, literate and non-literate alike.The history of nineteenth-century illustrated papers underscores their legitimacy as a form of journalism. They were more than a commodity produced for profit; they offered serious reflection and commentary on the times designed by editors to have specific effects on the readers. Images at War is a much-needed study of this early news medium and its part in the construction of nationalism in the midst of war
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442675995
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442675995/original
ER  -