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Looks at the history of mass media in the twentieth century, covering radio, film, television, the Internet, and newspapers, describing their development and purpose. (view table of contents)

Looks at the history of mass media in the twentieth century, covering radio, film, television, the Internet, and newspapers, describing their development and purpose. (view table of contents)

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'Essentially an update on John Frank Cady's now-classic Foreign Intervention in the Râio de la Plata, 1838-50 (1929). Challenges utility of the 'informal empire' concept in explaining Britain's sloppy handling of its Platine interests in the mid-19th century. McClean is more comfortable with English-language materials (which includes an array of documents from the PRO), than he is with those sources written in Spanish'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/