THE GLOBAL MEDIA AND THE EMPIRE OF LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM, CIRCA 1910–30Footnote1

1. We would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) for supporting the research project upon which this artilce is based. This article presents some of the key findings of that research project. The full version of our research is available in Communication and Empire: Media, Markets and Globalization, 1860–1930 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).

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