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The industrial book, 1840-1880 /

This volume of A History of the Book in America covers the creation, distribution, and uses of print and books in the mid-nineteenth century, when a truly national book trade emerged. Essays examine the rise of the manufactured, bound product and the idea of the book as the quintessential product of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Casper, Scott E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Colección:History of the book in America ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Manufacturing and book production
  • Labor and labor organization
  • Authors and literary authorship
  • The national book trade system
  • The role of government
  • Alternative publishing systems
  • Periodicals and serial publication
  • Ideologies and practices of reading
  • Sites of reading
  • Cultures of print
  • Alternative communication practices and the industrial book.