Socialism and Print Culture in America, 1897-1920

Informationen zum Autor Martinek, Jason D Klappentext For socialists at the turn of the last century, reading was a radical act. This interdisciplinary study looks at how American socialists used literacy in the struggle against capitalism. Zusammenfassung For socialists at the turn of the last century! reading was a radical act. This interdisciplinary study looks at how American socialists used literacy in the struggle against capitalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Workers of the World, Read!'; Chapter 1 'The Workingman's Bible' and the Making of American Socialism; Chapter 2 Charles H. Kerr & Company and the Americanization of Marxian Socialism; Chapter 3 Activist Readers and American Socialists' Print Culture of Dissent; Chapter 4 How the Socialist Party Created a Print Culture of Dissent Without a Party-Owned Press; Chapter 5 Information Management and the Socialist Party's Information Department and Research Bureau; Chapter 6 Annotations on the Failure of Socialism in America; Chapter 7 Conclusion: What a Book Cannot Do;

Product details

• Authors: Jason D Martinek, Jason D. Martinek
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9781848933347
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-334-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The History of the Book; The History of the Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature & literary studies, Social and cultural history, Literature: history and criticism, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General