Paul S Boyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 380341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul S Boyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul S |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyer |
| SIGNATURE | BOYER P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
American History
American History: A Very Short Introduction spans the earliest migrations to the present looking at the United States's failures to live up to its oft-stated ideals. The establishment of the North American colonies had very different meanings for colonists, native peoples, and enslaved Africans. The late nineteenth century saw industrial expansion, appalling conditions, and an exploited labor force. The twentieth-century emergence of a suburban s…
American history
Forum
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Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America
This book originated in papers presented at a 2004 conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and focuses principally on Protestantism in postbellum and modern America. The history of religious print culture in the United States is a new interdisciplinary field, one derived from the history of the book, as developed in good measure by David D. Hall, and from relig…
Religious and Secular Views on Endtime
Moral Reconstruction
Purity in Print
Purity in Print
The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first century
Schooled to Order
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents' ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor--names like …
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
In His Steps
Purity in Print
Purity in Print
Journal Article Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America. By Paul S. Boyer. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. xxi + 362 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.95.) Get access Vern L. Bullough Vern L. Bullough San Fernando Valley State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 2, September 1969, Pages 407–408…
Purity in Print
Purity in Print
Book Publishing in America
Journal Article Book Publishing in America. By Charles A. Madison. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. xiv + 628 pp. Bibliography, appendices, and index. $12.50.) Get access Paul S. Boyer Paul S. Boyer Radcliffe College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 1, June 1967, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900393 Published: 01 June 1967
Borrowed Rhetoric
W X T HEN John Quincy Adams in i823 expressed his concern that the United States might become a mere cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war, he vented a fear which Americans have frequently felt. As we seem at last to be acquiring a certain degree of confidence in our national distinctiveness, now is perhaps a propitious time for a closer examination of those occasions when the direction of the American cockboat through uncharted seas was…
Boston Book Censorship in the Twenties
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents' ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor--names like …
In His Steps
Book Publishing in America
Journal Article Book Publishing in America. By Charles A. Madison. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. xiv + 628 pp. Bibliography, appendices, and index. $12.50.) Get access Paul S. Boyer Paul S. Boyer Radcliffe College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 1, June 1967, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900393 Published: 01 June 1967
Religious and Secular Views on Endtime
Purity in Print
Boston Book Censorship in the Twenties
Borrowed Rhetoric
W X T HEN John Quincy Adams in i823 expressed his concern that the United States might become a mere cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war, he vented a fear which Americans have frequently felt. As we seem at last to be acquiring a certain degree of confidence in our national distinctiveness, now is perhaps a propitious time for a closer examination of those occasions when the direction of the American cockboat through uncharted seas was…
Book Publishing in America
Journal Article Book Publishing in America. By Charles A. Madison. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. xiv + 628 pp. Bibliography, appendices, and index. $12.50.) Get access Paul S. Boyer Paul S. Boyer Radcliffe College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 1, June 1967, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900393 Published: 01 June 1967
Purity in Print
Purity in Print
Journal Article Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America. By Paul S. Boyer. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. xxi + 362 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.95.) Get access Vern L. Bullough Vern L. Bullough San Fernando Valley State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 2, September 1969, Pages 407–408…
Purity in Print
Purity in Print
In His Steps
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents' ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor--names like …
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
Schooled to Order
Purity in Print
Purity in Print
The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first century
Moral Reconstruction
Religious and Secular Views on Endtime
Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America
This book originated in papers presented at a 2004 conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and focuses principally on Protestantism in postbellum and modern America. The history of religious print culture in the United States is a new interdisciplinary field, one derived from the history of the book, as developed in good measure by David D. Hall, and from relig…
Forum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
American History
American History: A Very Short Introduction spans the earliest migrations to the present looking at the United States's failures to live up to its oft-stated ideals. The establishment of the North American colonies had very different meanings for colonists, native peoples, and enslaved Africans. The late nineteenth century saw industrial expansion, appalling conditions, and an exploited labor force. The twentieth-century emergence of a suburban s…
American history
History (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Censorship (6 works) · Classics (5 works)