Newsprint Metropolis
City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
Seiten
2017
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-34133-0 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-34133-0 (ISBN)
At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business and publishers were soon reeling off as many copies as Americans could be convinced to buy. Newspapers quickly saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen daily papers apiece. Using New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago as case studies, Julia Guarneri shows how city dailies became active agents in creating metropolitan spaces and distinctive urban cultures.Newsprint Metropolis offers a vivid tour of these papers, from the front to the back pages. Paying attention to much-loved features, including comic strips, sports pages, advice columns, and Sunday magazines, she tells the linked histories of newspapers and the cities they served. Themed sections for women, businessmen, sports fans, and suburbanites illustrated entire ways of life built around consumer products. Guarneri also argues that while papers provided a guide to individual upward mobility, they also fostered a climate of civic concern and responsibility.
Charity campaigns and metropolitan sections painted portraits of distinctive, cohesive urban communities. Real estate sections and classified ads boosted the profile of the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. All the while, editors drew in new reading audiences women, immigrants, and working-class readers helping to give rise to the diverse, contentious, and commercial public sphere of the twentieth century.
Charity campaigns and metropolitan sections painted portraits of distinctive, cohesive urban communities. Real estate sections and classified ads boosted the profile of the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. All the while, editors drew in new reading audiences women, immigrants, and working-class readers helping to give rise to the diverse, contentious, and commercial public sphere of the twentieth century.
Julia Guarneri is university lecturer in US history at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a fellow of Fitzwilliam College.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.11.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Historical Studies of Urban America |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 16 x 24 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-34133-X / 022634133X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-34133-0 / 9780226341330 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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