A History of the Book in America : Volume 3: the Industrial Book, 1840-1880.
Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers. Chapters trace the ascent of the &quo...
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Other Authors / Creators: | Groves, Jeffrey D. Nissenbaum, Stephen W. Winship, Michael P. Hall, David D. Gunther, Candy. Carpenter, Kenneth E. Casper, Scott E. DeLombard, Jeannine Marie. Fabian, Ann. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007. |
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors' and Authors' Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Manufacturing and Book Production
- CHAPTER 2 Labor and Labor Organization
- CHAPTER 3 Authors and Literary Authorship
- CHAPTER 4 The National BookTrade System
- PART 1. Distribution and theTrade
- PART 2. Trade Communication
- PART 3. Courtesy of theTrade
- PART 4. The International Trade in Books
- CHAPTER 5 The Role of Government
- PART 1. Copyright
- PART 2. The Census, the Post Office, and Governmental Publishing
- CHAPTER 6 Alternative Publishing Systems
- PART 1. Diversification in American Religious Publishing
- PART 2. Other Variations on theTrade
- CHAPTER 7 Periodicals and Serial Publication
- Introduction
- PART 1. Newspapers and the Public Sphere
- PART 2. The Business of American Magazines
- PART 3. The Cultural Work of National Magazines
- PART 4. Religious Periodicals and Their Textual Communities
- CHAPTER 8 Ideologies and Practices of Reading
- CHAPTER 9 Sites of Reading
- PART 1. Libraries
- PART 2. Homes, Books, and Reading
- PART 3. City Streets and the Urban World of Print
- CHAPTER 10 Cultures of Print
- PART 1. Erudition and Learned Culture
- PART 2. African American Cultures of Print
- PART 3. Literacies, Readers, and Cultures of Print in the South
- CHAPTER 11 Alternative Communication Practices and the Industrial Book
- PART 1. Speech, Print, and Reform on Nantucket
- PART 2. Handwriting in an Age of Industrial Print
- PART 3. Amateur Authorship
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
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