Faith in reading : religious publishing and the birth of mass media in America /
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 nonprofi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-205) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198038610 0198038615 0195173112 9780195173116 9780199883899 0199883890 0195335783 9780195335781 1281196975 9781281196972 9786611196974 6611196978 1429430982 9781429430982 |