Books in the Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers series

In Regional Interest Magazines of the United States, Sam G. Riley and Gary W. Selnow focus on those magazines that direct their attention to a particular city or region and reach a fairly general readership intersted in entertainment and information. This work is a follow-up to their earlier Index to City and Regional Magazines of the United States. Titles are arranged alphabetically to facilitate access; each entry includes a historical essay on the magazine's founding, development, editorial policies, and content. Entries also include two sections that provide data on information sources and publication history, arranged in tabular form for ready reference.In choosing the magazines to be profiled, Riley and Selnow attempted to represent not only the biggest and most successful of this genre, but also some smaller and newer titles, plus significant earlier magazines that are no longer in print. Special care was also taken to achieve an even geographical spread. To attain greater accuracy, regional writers were enlisted to do the entries on their own region. These writers provide valuable information on how the various magazines began, how conditions have caused them to change, their problems, their editors and publishers, and their content as well as colorful and little known facts of their operation. Magazines were arranged alphabetically, and two informative appendices list the profiled titles by founding date and geographic location. This volume will be a valuable resource for students of magazine publishing history.

Each entry contains an essay profile of the publication listed, and includes a discussion of its founding, intentions, editors, content, affiliations with tribes, organizations, or other groups, and demise.

This book provides a listing of nearly 7,000 Southern non-newspaper periodicals that started publication from 1764 to 1984.

?The first of a two-part reference guide; a companion volume will profile 20th-century literary magazines. The two volumes are intended to be a compehensive source of information on a relatively neglected aspect of American literary history, the literary magazine. The editor defines as literary' those magazines that included fiction, poetry, and critical, philosophical, or familiar essays. The guide's profiles emphasize the literary features of 18th-and 19th-century periodicals, as well as their social and historical significance. Other less- specifically literary' magazines have been included in the guide for the respective roles they played in literary history. Editorial and publishing histories, circulation figures, and finances are discussed only if they pertain directly to the literary developments of the magazines. ... Each chapter concludes with a bibliography of sources providing useful additional information for the researcher. Recommended for academic and public reference collections.?-Choice

A reference work offering a representative sample of the British magazine market, providing detailed profiles of 50 magazines ranging from "The Lady", "Spectator" and "Punch", to "Prima", "New Statesman and Society" and "Private Eye". It includes a concise history and subject categorisation.

?Edited by a specialist in contemporary British literature, the 108 signed critiques are primarily by academicians from the US and other parts of the English-speaking world. Each of the profiles includes information such as location sources, reprint editions, title changes, frequency, editors, and publishers. In addition, there are useful appendixes (e.g., Magazines with Short Runs' and Scottish Literary Magazines') and a detailed index. Excellent in its conception and scope, this reference book would support the research of a wide range of scholars of English literature on the graduate and undergraduate levels.?-Choice

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This unique reference source provides a listing of 920 general-interest consumer magazines that specialize geographically. The book's three main sections are arranged alphabetically by title, chronologically by founding date, geographically by state, and cover regional interest magazines that have been in publication since 1950.

"More than 100 general magazines with circulation over 100,000, some still publishing and many memories from earlier this century, are described in two- or three-page profiles. . . . A chronology placing the periodicals on a time line provides an interesting, at-a-glance look at magazines' history. Most of the important magazines are included, except for some sports and women's magazines slated for future companion collections." Library Journals

This first annotated guide devoted entirely to American humor magazines and periodicals provides a comprehensive survey of a genre that has both enriched and reflected American mores, popular culture, and literature for over two hundred years.

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?This will be the basic tool for researchers studying the 100-year history of science fiction, fantasy, and weird fiction magazines; it is especially strong for the Pulp Era, 1926 to the early 1950s. . . . The bulk of the volume (Section 1) is an alphabetical listing of 279 English-language magazines from the 1882 Argosy to those appearing in the early 1980s. A lengthy narrative traces each magazine's publishing history and editorial policies. Also included for each entry are bibliographic notes, information on indexing, reprint sources, locations of copies in libraries, title changes, volume numbers, publisher, editors, format, and price. Section 2 provides similar treatment for 15 anthologies with close affiliations to magazines. Other sections include notes on 72 fanzines and academic journals in the field, annotations for 184 non-English-language magazines, an index to major cover artists, and a chronology of magazines by founding date. . . . The review volume provides the researcher with the comprehensive coverage necessary for evaluating this historical and literary phenomenon. It also provides the bibliographic apparatus for documenting these magazines.?-Reference Books Bulletin

A diverse and dynamic branch of American journalism, the specialized business press has helped to shape our trades, our industries, our businesses, our professions--our economic way of life.

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This newest addition to Greenwood Press' Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers examines the histories of selected non-classified periodicals, primarily American, that are devoted to military and naval subjects.

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The history of modern American literature is inextricably tied to the history of the literary magazine.

?Public and academic libraries will want to consider Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, particularly if their users include mystery buffs and/or students of popular literature. Cook's accounts of periodicals are consistently informative, clear, and penetrating: his sensitivity to much of what he discusses, is, at times, positively uncanny.?-Reference Books Bulletin

This volume offers profiles of 423 titles published during the past two hundred years. For its full descriptions of magazines, its bibliographies, publication histories, and location sources, Children's Periodicals of the United States is a much needed work.

Changes in these magazines mirror the changing interests of women, the increased purchasing power of women, and the willingness of advertisers and publishers to reach a female audience. This reference book is a guide to women's consumer magazines published in the United States.

This survey of the development of a business press in the United States will provide students and scholars of business, business history, and business journalism an introduction to the variety of serial literature relating to business available in the field.

A cross-disciplinary guide to periodical literature in music dealing with scholarly journals and all journals important to the profession. Some 200 titles are treated extensively and each entry addresses historical background, physical description, content, critical assessment and bibliography.

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Selecting journals that speak for a very large number of topics addressed by the conservative press, this volume profiles selected conservative journals published since 1787.

This reference book profiles corporate magazines, those sponsored by and produced for a single business firm. Entries are arranged alphabetically and each entry appears in additional appendixes which classify the profiled magazine by founding date and geographic location.

Many of these were short-lived newsletters, while others continue to be published today. Through entries on more than 70 individual periodicals published in the 19th and 20th centuries, this reference traces the history of women's involvement in many of the social, political, and economic issues in the United States.