Spreading the Word : The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America /
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book te...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t List Of Illustrations -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. A Bible House In The City -- |t 2. From Civic Humanitarianism To Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature Of The Board Of Managers -- |t 3. Local Particularism And National Interests: Creating The Agency System, 1816-1830 -- |t 4. The Limits Of Consensus In A Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem Of Mariners And "Papists" -- |t 5. The Limits Of Consensus In A Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, And Abolitionists -- |t 6. "Motives Of Both Duty And Expediency": Entering The Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- |t 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization And The Agency System, 1845-1865 -- |t 8. Race, War, And Sectionalism: Reconstructing The Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- |t 9. Bringing System And Order To The Agency: Bible Work In The Levant, 1854-1889 -- |t Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" To "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament -- |t Index |
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520 | |a Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States. | ||
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650 | 4 | |a Religious Studies. | |
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