Forthcoming Communication History Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education

   American Women Learn to Speak

   Edited by David Gold, Catherine L. Hobbs

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Communicating Environmental Patriotism

   A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement

   By Anne Marie Todd

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country’s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism in America through the intriguing stories of...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Effective Risk Communication

   Edited by Joseph Arvai, Louie Rivers III

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses on answering these questions. The book draws...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Public Relations and Religion in American History

   By Margot Opdycke Lamme

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Relations

   This history of public relations examines the influence of faith on communications during great social, cultural, and economic change in the United States, from 1870 to the early 1920s. With a focus on American evangelicalism, temperance, and business, all of which embraced contemporary...

   To Be Published January 1st 2014 by Routledge
5. Popular Media and the American Revolution

   Shaping Collective Memory

   By Janice Hume

   The American Revolution--an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins--continues to live on in the public's memory. Each year on July 4th, the United States honors its history with fireworks and similar patriotic displays...

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge