Overview
- Provides the first English language study of the history of the Norwegian press from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
- Offers a condensed version of the widely accclaimed 4 volume “Den norske presses historie” issued in 2010
- Demonstrates how the Norwegian press has undergone cycles of slump, recession, decline, death and restructuring throughout history
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)
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Keywords
- media history
- newspapers
- Norwegian history
- 1800-1870
- business
- culture
- Europe
- Germany
- growth
- history
- industries
- media
- modern history
- social history
- social science
About this book
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 – the number that remains today.
The press system created a substantial structure, which would prove vital for many of the later media outlets that developed over the twentieth century with the breakthrough of new technologies - cinema industry, radio broadcasting, television and the internet. Newspapers generated the money and power for the development of these media, thus shaping such media and determining, or at least influencing, their perception and reception in Norwegian society. The press in Norway is therefore at the core of the modern media system and its rich history.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hans Fredrik Dahl is Professor Emeritus in Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is formerly the cultural editor of Dagbladet, and the author of numerous books about the Second World War and Norwegian media in the twentieth century. His previous publications include a biography of Vidkun Quisling and a three-volume history of broadcasting in Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of the Norwegian Press, 1660-2015
Authors: Hans Fredrik Dahl
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58025-2Published: 30 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84560-6Published: 31 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 283