Spreading the word : the Bible business in nineteenth-century America /

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Tells how the American Bible Society, 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wosh, Peter J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Temas:
American Bible Society > History > 19th century.
American Bible Society
Bible > Publication and distribution > United States.
Bible > Publication et diffusion > États-Unis.
Bible
1800-1899
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Economic history
Social conditions
Bijbelgenootschappen.
Geschichte 1800-1900.
United States > Social conditions.
United States > Economic conditions.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A Bible House in the City
  • 2. From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers
  • 3. Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830
  • 4. The Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists"
  • 5. The Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists
  • 6. "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844
  • 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865
  • 8. Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867
  • 9. Bringing System and Order to the Agency: Bible Work in the Levant, 1854-1889
  • Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" to "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament.

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