Pathways to Public Relations

Burton St. John III is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Old Dominion University, USA. Margot Opdycke Lamme is an Associate Professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Alabama, USA. Jacquie L’Etang is Chair of Public Relations and Applied Communications, Queen Margaret University, Scotland.

Introduction - Realizing New Pathways to Public Relations History Part I: Public Relations History and Faith 1. The Strategic Heart: The Nearly Mutual Embrace of Religion and Public 2. State and Church as Public Relations History in Ireland, 1922-2011 3. The Public Relations and Artful Devotion of Hildegard Von Bingen 4. An Alternative View of Social Responsibility: The Ancient and Global Footprint of Caritas and Public Relations Part II: Public Relations History and Politics/Government 5. The Coercion of Consent: The Manipulative Potential of FBI Public Relations During the J. Edgar Hoover Era 6. Forgotten Roots of International Public Relations: Attempts of Germany, Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to Influence the United States during World War I 7. Government is Different: A History of Public Relations in American Public Administration 8. Building Certainty in Uncertain Times: The Construction of Communication by Early Medieval Polities 9. I, Claudius the Idiot: Lessons to be Learned from Reputation Management in Ancient Rome 10. The Utilization of Public Relations to Avoid Imperialism During the Beginning of Thailand’s Transition to Modernization (1851-1868) Part III: Public Relations History and Reform 11. Between International and Domestic Public Relations: Cultural Diplomacy and Race in the 1949 ATMA "Round-the-World Tour" 12. Shell Oil as a Window into the Development of Public Relations in Nigeria: From Information Management to Social Accountability 13. The Intersection of Public Relations and Activism: A Multinational Look at Suffrage Movements 14. Ubuntu, Professionalism, Activism, and the Rise of Public Relations in Uganda 15. Sarah Josepha Hale, Editor/Advocate Part IV: Public Relations History and the Profession 16. The Historical Development of Public Relations in Turkey: The Rise of a Profession in Times of Social Transformation 17. An Agent of Change: Public Relations in Early-20th Century Australia 18. The "New Technique": Public Relations, Propaganda, and the American Public, 1920-1925 19. Arthur Page and the Professionalization of Public Relations 20. The Good Reason of Public Relations: PR News and the Selling of a Field 21. Defining Public in Public Relations: How the 1920s Debate over Public Opinion Influenced Early Philosophies of Public Relations