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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 |
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.