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North American Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations

Other Voices

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Considers the development of PR in both Canada and the U.S.
  • Challenges many orthodoxies of PR history, especially in the U.S.
  • Presents new historical material on areas of PR practice

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Tom Watson
    Pages 1-3
  3. United States–Development and Expansion of Public Relations

    • Margot Opdycke Lamme, Karen Miller Russell, Denise Hill, Shelley Spector
    Pages 21-35
  4. Government Public Relations in Canada and the United States

    • Mordecai Lee, Fraser Likely, Jean Valin
    Pages 65-80
  5. Political Communications and Lobbying in the United States

    • Edward J. Downes, Dustin W. Supa, Esther Austin
    Pages 97-111
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 127-141

About this book

This is the seventh volume of The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series, which is the first to offer an authentic worldwide view of the history of public relations freed from a corporatist framework.. 

The series features seven books, six of which cover continental and regional groups including (Book 1) Asia and Australasia, (Book 2) Eastern Europe and Russia, (Book 3) Middle East and Africa, (Book 4) Latin America and Caribbean, (Book 5) Western Europe, and this volume, (Book 7) North America. The sixth volume featured five essays on new and revised historiographic and theoretical approaches.

Written by leading public relations historians and scholars, some histories of national public relations development are offered for the first time while others are reinterpreted using new archival sources and other historiographical approaches. The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: OtherVoices series makes a major contribution to the wider knowledge of PR’s history.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom

    Tom Watson

About the editor

Tom Watson is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Media & Communication at Bournemouth University. He is the founder of the International History of Public Relations Conference. Tom researches public relations history, as well as practice issues. He is a Fellow of the CIPR and a PRCA Founding Fellow.

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eBook USD 39.99
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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