Pathways to Public Relations provides a synthesis of a complicated arena that no other edited volume has attempted. With its wide range of historical perspectives and multiple levels of analysis that fully contextualizes public relations, this book showcases a range of cultural and contextual aspects from a diverse range of historians active within the public relations field.

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

Pathways to Public Relations: Histories of Practice and Profession sets its scope broadly to examine what its authors document as the historic presence of public relations. It goes beyond the notion that one model defines the practice or that research should be limited only to practices that are defined specifically as public relations. Readers are left to decide those matters for themselves, given the abundant documentation and definition that the authors bring to bear on the matter. Pathways, in that regard, gives insights into a discourse practice that seems inherent in the human condition.Robert L. Heath, University of Houston, USAWhat more needs to be said about public relations? Well plenty, if you want to understand how it critically influences society. Pathways to Public Relations is an edited volume that is rich with fascinating new viewpoints and historical research. By revealing PR’s often hidden and complex relationships with religion, civil society, government and corporations - and its own professional project - this book provides compelling evidence that PR’s socio-cultural significance is 'only just beginning to surface'. Kristin Demetrious, Deakin University, AustraliaPathways to Public Relations rips up the standard historical narrative of public relations and rids it of a narrow focus on corporations, professionalism and biographies of father figures. The result is a wildly diverse and fascinatingly rich volume.Øyvind Ihlen, University of Oslo, NorwayPathways to Public Relations: Histories of practice and profession' builds on the success of the International History of Public Relations Conference and offers a broad range of recent scholarship from around the world. It is a very welcome scholarly addition to the expanding field of public relations history. Tom Watson, Bournemouth University, UK