Crying the news: a history of America's Newsboys

'Crying the News' places newsboys at the centre of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. Vincent DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting for...

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1. Verfasser: DiGirolamo, Vincent 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:'Crying the News' places newsboys at the centre of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. Vincent DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these 'little merchants' over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them
Beschreibung:Also issued in print: 2019. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN:9780190933258
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780195320251.001.0001