Thirty-Second Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-10-03
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 3375163177
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-10-03
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 3375163177
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Author: American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.)
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Published: 1846
Total Pages: 127
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Paul Nord
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-08-19
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0199883890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.)
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 662
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 754
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-02-15
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 3382306697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint 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.
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 752
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0195148010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. They provide essential background to an issue that continues to generate controversy in the Protestant community today.
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts). Library
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 752
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Tract Society
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 228
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