Perspectives On Public Relations Historiography And Historical Theorization: Other Voices (national Perspectives On The Development Of Public Relations)

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations. It will feature six books, five of which will cover continental and regional groups. This last book in the series focuses on historiographical and theoretical approaches. The history of public relations has long been presented in a corporatist Anglo-American framework. The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations freed from those influences. The series features six books, five 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 and (Book 5) Western Europe. The sixth book will have essays on new and revised historiographical and theoretical approaches. Written by leading national public relations historians and scholars, some histories of national public relations development are offered for the first time while others are reinterpreted in a more authentic style. The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series makes a major contribution to the wider knowledge of PR's history and aids formation of new historiographical and theoretical approaches Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-3 What in the World is Public Relations?....Pages 4-19 Problems of Public Relations Historiography and Perspectives of a Functional-Integrative Stratification Model....Pages 20-47 ‘Where the Quiet Work is Done’: Biography in Public Relations....Pages 48-68 Where is Public Relations Historiography? Philosophy of History, Historiography and Public Relations....Pages 69-84 Historiography (and Theory) of Public Relations History....Pages 85-114 Back Matter....Pages 115-117