| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Paul Starr. The Creation of The Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications. New York: Basic Books. 2004. Pp. xii, 484. $27.50.

Paul Starr's book joins a rapidly growing body of new scholarship concerning the role of media, telecommunications, and information over the past four centuries. It examines the development and role of media in North America from the 1600s to 1941. While the author provides comparative discussions relating to the role of media in Great Britain, France, and Canada, the book focuses squarely on the American experience. Starr describes the development of newspapers, books, postal systems, telegraph, telephone, radio, and movies.

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