Author: American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
A Most Stirring and Significant Episode
Author: H. Paul Thompson, Jr.Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501756672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
When Atlanta enacted prohibition in 1885, it was the largest city in the United States to do so. A Most Stirring and Significant Episode examines the rise of temperance sentiment among freed African Americans that made this vote possible—as well as the forces that resulted in its 1887 reversal well before the 18th Amendment to the Constitution created a national prohibition in 1919. H. Paul Thompson Jr.'s research also sheds light on the profoundly religious nature of African American involvement in the temperance movement. Contrary to the prevalent depiction of that movement as being one predominantly led by white, female activists like Carrie Nation, Thompson reveals here that African Americans were central to the rise of prohibition in the south during the 1880s. As such, A Most Stirring and Significant Episode offers a new take on the proliferation of prohibition and will not only speak to scholars of prohibition in the US and beyond, but also to historians of religion and the African American experience.
Catalogue of the Library. (Prepared by John Appleton.).
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Faith in Reading
Author: David Paul NordPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199883890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading tells the remarkable story of the noncommercial religious origins of our modern media culture. In the early nineteenth century, a few visionary entrepreneurs decided the time was right to reach everyone in America through the medium of print. Though they were modern businessmen, their publishing enterprises were not commercial businesses but nonprofit societies committed to the publication of traditional religious texts. Drawing on organizational reports and archival sources, David Paul Nord shows how the managers of Bible and religious tract societies made themselves into large-scale manufacturers and distributors of print. These organizations believed it was possible to place the same printed message into the hands of every man, woman, and child in America. Employing modern printing technologies and business methods, they were remarkably successful, churning out millions of Bibles, tracts, religious books, and periodicals. They mounted massive campaigns to make books cheap and plentiful by turning them into modern, mass-produced consumer goods. Nord demonstrates how religious publishers learned to work against the flow of ordinary commerce. They believed that reading was too important to be left to the "market revolution," so they turned the market on its head, seeking to deliver their product to everyone, regardless of ability or even desire to buy. Wedding modern technology and national organization to a traditional faith in reading, these publishing societies imagined and then invented mass media in America.
Semi-annual Report on Schools for Freedom
Author: United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Annual report
Author: New York State Library (Albany, NY)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description