A History of the Book in America : Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World /

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: University of North Carolina Press, American Antiquarian Society
Otros Autores: Hall, David D. (Editor ), Amory, Hugh (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:History of the book in America ; v. 1.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Publishers and publishing > United States > History.
Printing > United States > History.
Books > United States > History.
Book industries and trade > United States > History > 18th century.
Book industries and trade > United States > History > 17th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : part 1. Some contexts and questions. part 2. The Europeans' encounter with the native Americans / David D. Hall
  • chapter 1. Reinventing the colonial book / Hugh Amory
  • chapter 2. The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century / David D. Hall
  • chapter 3. Printing and bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 / Hugh Amory
  • chapter 4. Readers and writers in early New England / David D. Hall
  • chapter 5. The Atlantic world. part 1. The Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall. part 2. Printers' supplies and capitalization / John Bidwell. part 3. The importation of books in the eighteenth century / James Raven
  • chapter 6. The book trade in the middle colonies, 1680-1720 / James N. Green
  • chapter 7. The southern book trade in the eighteenth century / Calhoun Winton
  • chapter 8. The middle colonies, 1720-1790. part 1. English books and printing in the age of Franklin / James N. Green. part 2. German and Dutch books and printing / A. Gregg Roeber
  • chapter 9. The New England book trade, 1713-1790 / Hugh Amory
  • chapter 10. Periodicals and politics. part 1. Early American journalism : news and opinion in the popular press / Charles E. Clark. part 2. The shifting freedoms of the press in the eighteenth century / Richard D. Brown
  • chapter 11. Practices of reading. Introduction / David D. Hall and Elizabeth Carroll Reilly. part 1. Literacy and schoolbooks / Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan. part 2. Customers and the market for books / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall. part 3. Libraries and their users / Ross W. Beales and James N. Green. part 4. Modalities of reading / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall
  • chapter 12. Learned culture in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall
  • chapter 13. Eighteenth-century literary culture / David S. Shields.

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