| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

New Media, 1740–1915. Ed. by Lisa Gitel-man and Geoffrey B. Pingree. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xxxiv, 271 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-262-07245-9.)

This disparate collection of ten essays seeks to historicize communications change by considering the emergence, introduction, and unanticipated development of media forms in American culture from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The authors represent a diversity of academic disciplines, including media studies, communications, art history, the history and philosophy of science, and English. They examine a wide array of media, ranging from the familiar (telegraphs, telephones, and phonographs) through the highly esoteric (zograscopes, optical telegraphs, and the physiognotrace) to subjects that many historians might not conventionally view as media at all (scrapbooks and Cherokee children in Lancasterian schools). A theoretically interesting, messy, and uneven book emerges.

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