A History of the Norwegian Press, 1660-2015

by Hans Fredrik Dahl

Book Overview

In the course of the nineteenth century the advent of printed pamphlets, with their news and advertisements, gave every town along Norway's long coast populated by farmers, fishermen, clergy, businessmen and shopkeepers a common language and a public arena for news and ideas. In Norway alone, the number of titles grew from a handful to a hundred in the course of the century. From 1900 to 1940 the number of papers swelled to two hundred and seventy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137580259
• ISBN13: 9781137580252
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"