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Spreading the Word : The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America /
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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Spreading the Word : |b The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America / |c Peter J. Wosh. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Ithaca : |b Cornell University Press, |c 1994. | |
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| 264 | 4 | |c ©1994. | |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1. |t A Bible House in the City -- |g 2. |t From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers -- |g 3. |t Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 -- |g 4. |t The Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" -- |g 5. |t The Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists -- |g 6. |t "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- |g 7. |t Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 -- |g 8. |t Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- |g 9. |t 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. |
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| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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