Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : pt.1. Some contexts and questions. pt.2. The Europeans' encounter with the native Americans / David D. Hall
  • Reinventing the colonial book / Hugh Amory
  • The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century / David D. Hall
  • Printing and bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 / Hugh Amory
  • Readers and writers in early New England / David D. Hall
  • The Atlantic world. pt.1. The Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall. pt.2. Printers' supplies and capitalization / John Bidwell. pt.3. The importation of books in the eighteenth century / James Raven
  • The book trade in the middle colonies, 1680-1720 / James N. Green
  • The southern book trade in the eighteenth century / Calhoun Winton
  • The middle colonies, 1720-1790. pt.1. English books and printing in the age of Franklin / James N. Green. pt.2. German and Dutch books and printing / A. Gregg Roeber
  • The New England book trade, 1713-1790 / Hugh Amory
  • Periodicals and politics. pt.1. Early American journalism : news and opinion in the popular press / Charles E. Clark. pt.2. The shifting freedoms of the press in the eighteenth century / Richard D. Brown
  • Practices of reading. pt.1. Introduction / David D. Hall and Elizabeth Carroll Reilly. pt.1. Literacy and schoolbooks / Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan. pt.2. Customers and the market for books / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall. pt.3. Libraries and their users / Ross W. Beales and James N. Green. pt.4. Modalities of reading / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall
  • Learned culture in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall
  • Eighteenth-century literary culture / David S. Shields.