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The American Booksellers Guide
Author: The American Bookseller
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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American Bookseller
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Rowell's American Newspaper Directory
Author: George Presbury RowellPublisher:
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
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Spiritualism in the American Civil War
Author: R. Gregory LandePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476682232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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America's Civil War took a dreadful toll on human lives, and the emotional repercussions were exacerbated by tales of battlefield atrocities, improper burials and by the lack of news that many received about the fate of their loved ones. Amidst widespread religious doubt and social skepticism, spiritualism--the belief that the spirits of the dead existed and could communicate with the living--filled a psychological void by providing a pathway towards closure during a time of mourning, and by promising an eternal reunion in the afterlife regardless of earthly sins. Primary research, including 55 months of the weekly spiritual newspaper, Banner of Light and records of hundreds of soldiers' and family members' spirit messages, reveals unique insights into battlefield deaths, the transition to spirit life, and the motivations prompting ethereal communications. This book focuses extensively on Spiritualism's religious, political, and commercial activities during the war years, as well as the controversies surrounding the faith, strengthening the connection between ante- and postbellum studies of Spiritualism.
Pettengill's Newspaper Directory and Advertisers' Handbook for ...
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Category : Advertising, Magazine
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The American Booksellers Guide
Author: The American Catalogue of Books, Or English Guide to American Literature, Giving the Full Titles of Original Works Published in the United States Since the Year 1800, with Especial Reference to Works of Interest to Great Britain. With the Prices at which They May be Obtained in London
Author: Sampson LOW (the Elder.)Publisher:
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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American Guides
Author: Wendy GriswoldPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635783X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were hungry for the written word. With an eye to this market and as a response to unemployment, Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers' Project. They produced the Project's American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. The series unintentionally diversified American literary culture's cast of characters--promoting women, minority, and rural writers--while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes.
