Author: Gospel Tract Society (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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The First(-third) Annual Report of the Gospel Tract Society
Author: Gospel Tract Society (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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The fifty-first (-136th) annual report of the Religious tract society
Author: Religious tract societyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Annual Report
Author: Chinese Religious Tract SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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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.
Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Agency of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract Society. Pennsylvania BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Reforming Men and Women
Author: Bruce DorseyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field of gender studies, incorporating an analysis of masculinity into the history of early American religion and reform. His is a holistic account that reveals the contested meanings of manhood and womanhood among antebellum Americans, both black and white, middle class and working class.Urban poverty, drink, slavery, and Irish Catholic immigration--for each of these social problems that engrossed Northern reformers, Dorsey examines the often competing views held by male and female activists and shows how their perspectives were further complicated by differences in class, race, and generation. His primary focus is Philadelphia, birthplace of nearly every kind of benevolent and reform society and emblematic of changes occurring throughout the North. With an especially rich history of African-American activism, the city is ideal for Dorsey's exploration of race and reform.Combining stories of both ordinary individuals and major reformers with an insightful analysis of contemporary songs, plays, fiction, and polemics, Dorsey exposes the ways race, class, and ethnicity influenced the meanings of manhood and womanhood in nineteenth-century America. By linking his gendered history of religious activism with the transformations characterizing antebellum society, he contributes to a larger quest: to engender all of American history.
Australasian Bibliography
Author: Public Library of New South WalesPublisher:
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Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
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