Product Description: This is a biography that was censored in its day which serves as a genre study because it is a unique blend of travel literature, autobiography, and political commentary that paints a portrait of Europe still warming up to representational politics...read more

Product Description: This book chronicles the attitudes of librarians toward technological innovations that took place between 1860 and 1960. These years saw the invention and subsequent diffusion of electricity, photography, the telephone, the phonograph, motion pictures, the radio, and television...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: New concepts, new ideas, and new objects diffuse through a society in a fairly predictable, multi-stage process over an indeterminate period of time. In recent years many social scientists representing various disciplines have accepted the methods and findings of diffusion research and it has attained legitimacy and prominence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)