A History of the Book in America : Volume 3: 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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Casper, Scott E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Publishers and publishing.
Books and reading.
Book industries and trade.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Sales & Selling > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 19th century.
Book industries and trade > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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