A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet

Marshall T. Poe, Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa, is the author or editor of several books, including A People Born to Slavery: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography (2000), The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century (2004), and The Russian Moment in World History (2006). He is the cofounder and editor of Kritika: show more Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and founder and host of "New Books in History" (http://newbooksinhistory.com), as well as a former writer and editor for The Atlantic Monthly. Professor Poe has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton University), the Harriman Institute (Columbia University), and the Kennan Institute (Washington, DC). show less