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Product Description: From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once only amateur authors, clumsy technologies for production and distribution, and sparse reader demand? What legitimated magazines as they competed with other media, such as newspapers, books, and letters? And what role did magazines play in the integration or division of American society?From their first appearance in 1741, magazines brought together like-minded people, wherever they were located and whatever interests they shared...read more

Hardcover:

9780691164403 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age.

Paperback:

9780536584175, titled "Qualitative Research in Higher Education" | Ginn Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $60.00 | also contains Qualitative Research in Higher Education | About this edition: Book by Conrad

Product Description: This volume is a collection of studies of magazines in Britain and the US in the period 1730-1820. The studies concentrate on the editorial practices that seems to be standard at the time, such as editors falsely accusing others of plagiarism whilst plagiarizing works themselves, editors disguised the reprinting of something old as something new, invented scandal, and promised wonderful things would appear when in fact they never would or were never intended to...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780773476578 | Reprint edition (Edwin Mellen Pr, December 1, 2000), cover price $109.95 | About this edition: This volume is a collection of studies of magazines in Britain and the US in the period 1730-1820.

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