Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2017
Department
English
Abstract
Haveman’s work explores the changing ways that American magazine publishing and distribution helped create and shape local communities and, increasingly during the nineteenth century, the trans-local communities that are a hallmark of modern life. Her narration and synthesis of data and scholarship on the evolving genres, contents, infrastructures, and institutional workings of American magazines in chapters two through four alone make her work an important source on magazine production and distribution. Subsequent chapters provide a series of case studies on how magazines engendered communities around religion, social reform, and economic development. Following her conclusion, Haveman provides rich, detailed appendices on data and method.
Original Publication Information
Mattes, Mark. "Review of 'Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860.' By Heather Haveman." 2017 Sharp News.
ThinkIR Citation
Mattes, Mark A., "Review of Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. By Heather Haveman" (2017). Faculty Scholarship. 837.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/837
ORCID
0000-0002-6490-3693
Included in
Economic History Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons
Comments
This article was originally published in Sharp News, an open access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, on February 24, 2017.