Books in the American Popular Culture series

Since the Garden of Eden, humanity has been concerned with shelter. Yet housing means different things to different people. This is a historical reference guide that reviews housing concepts and issues. It covers current literature in housing from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Here is the first reference guide to the major sources for the study of recreational vehicles, boats, and aircraft in the context of American history and popular culture. Reference works, histories, fiction, and specialized journals relating to the topic of recreational travel are described and analyzed.

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Newspapers provides a historical context for the books discussed in its readable essays and will be invaluable for anyone researching the history or role of newspapers in American life. Booklist Professionals and scholars will find Newspapers: A Reference Guide useful. In it Schwarzlose supplies a thorough list of published works on newspaper topics. AdweekThis reference guide provides a broad-based and comprehensive introduction to the literature about and by newspapers, and views them as multi-faceted sociocultural phenomena. Following an introduction that outlines the history of American newspapers from their European antecedents to their forseeable future, the book examines the extensive literature on the history of newspapers in its regional and period dimensions, and biographical material on newspaper personalities, representing all levels and periods of journalists. This carefully constructed sourcebook includes an extensive discussion of the literature on the techniques and theories of producing newspapers, a section on the collections and anthologies of newspapers and their writers, and a thorough examination of the voluminous and rapidly changing literature on some of the critical issues facing newspapers today.

?This is a guide to children's play in America, beginning with colonial times. Part I is a narrative history of play, using many primary and autobiographical sources.... Part II consists of a lengthy narrative bibliography of relevant sources, an alphabetical checklist of books and articles, and a description of major research collections. Mergen, a professor of American civilization at George Washington University, has written a book that is both scholarly and accessible. Recommended for research collections in child study, recreation, and American culture.?-Library Journal

?Anyone who has ever tried to assist a patron doing research in this field will welcome this bibliographic essay. Over 500 items are analyzed, from books and periodical articles to unpublished manuscripts and films, from Walpole to Barbara Cartland, from scholarly journals to Time magazine. . . . Most libraries will want and use this book. It is very good.?-Library Journal

Subsequent chapters evaluate manuals on the execution of magic, including all categories from card magic to stage illusions and telepathy.

?This guide to works about women's roles and images in popular culture provides descriptive essays and bibliographical citations to scholarly and popular works on a variety of topics related to the general theme. Coverage includes ... women in popular culture, women's roles as depicted in popular literature, magazines and magazine fiction, films, television, advertising, fashion, sports, and comics, and theories of women in popular culture. Five appendixes provide additional documentation and listings of materials. This book will be useful to those who want to know what reading materials are available on particular topics. Selections have been carefully made and the essays painstakingly summarize the contents of books and articles.?-Reference Books Bulletin

"[A] useful, lucid, intelligent contribution to sports scholarship." Journal of Sport History

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This reference traces the historical background of editorial cartooning and presents works that chronicle the history and criticize the aesthetics of the art.

This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history.

One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivialism and American Romanticism.

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The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically where the first left off.

Providing a convenient and unique look at fashion and costume literature and how it has developed historically, this volume discusses monographic and reference literature and provides information on periodicals, research centers, and costume museums and collections.

ChoiceIntended to be an evaluative survey of bibliographical material on the history and development of radio and radio programming in America, this guide identifies and discusses more than 500 written sources relating to radio music, drama, comedy and variety, news, sports and more.

?Wilmeth covers the circus, Wild West exhibition, dime museum, medicine and minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, the musical review, and stage magic. His opening and closing chapters deal with less neatly defined topics: outdoor amusements (fairs, expositions, theme parks) and showboats and tent theaters. ... Each chapter begins with a historical summary, continues with a survey of sources including listings of major collections, societies, museums, etc., for each type of amusement, and concludes with a bibliography. ... This is a useful reference work for popular culture and performing arts collections.?-Choice

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