Faith in reading : religious publishing and the birth of mass media in America

Resource Information

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Label

Faith in reading : religious publishing and the birth of mass media in America

Title remainder

religious publishing and the birth of mass media in America

Statement of responsibility

David Paul Nord

Creator

• Nord, David Paul

Subject

• Tract societies -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Religious literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Mass media -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Christians -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

This is the remarkable story of the unlikely origins of modern media culture. In the early 19th century, a few entrepreneurs decided the time was right to launch a true mass media in America. Though they were savvy businessmen, their publishing enterprises were not commercial businesses but nonprofit religious organizations

Member of

• Religion in America series
• Oxford scholarship online, Religion module
• Oxford scholarship online

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

070.5097309034

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Religion in America series
• Oxford scholarship online

Target audience

specialized