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Perspectives on American book history : artifacts and commentary / edited by Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves.
Van Pelt Library Z471 .P47 2002 1 v. + CD-ROM
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book industries and trade--United States--History--Sources.
- Book industries and trade.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--History--Sources.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Books and reading--United States--History--Sources.
- Books and reading.
- Book industries and trade--Social aspects--United States.
- Publishers and publishing--Social aspects--United States.
- Books and reading--Social aspects--United States.
- Books and reading--Social aspects.
- Publishers and publishing--Social aspects.
- Book industries and trade--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2002]
- System Details:
- System requirements for disc: Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator).
- text file
- Summary:
- An introduction to print culture in America, accompanied by a CD-ROM image archive.
- Contents:
- 1 Texts for the Times: An Introduction to Book History / Robert A. Gross 1
- 2 Literacy and Reading in Puritan New England / Jill Lepore 17
- 3 Print and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century / Patricia Crain 47
- 4 Publishing the American Revolution / Russell L. Martin 79
- 5 The Book Trade Transformed / Jeffrey D. Groves 109
- 6 Antebellum Reading Prescribed and Described / Scott E. Casper 135
- 7 Publishing an Emergent "American" Literature / Susan S. Williams 165
- 8 Northern and Southern Worlds of Print / Alice Fahs 195
- 9 Reshaping Publishing and Authorship in the Gilded Age / Nancy Cook 223
- 10 Print Cultures in the American West / Jen A. Huntley-Smith 255
- 11 Laboring Classes, New Readers, and Print Cultures / Ann Fabian 285
- 12 The Industrialization and Nationalization of American Periodical Publishing / Charles Johanningsmeier 311
- 13 Print and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture / Trysh Travis 339
- 14 Out of the Mainstream and into the Streets: Small Press Magazines, the Underground Press, Zines, and Artists' Books / Ellen Gruber Garvey 367
- 15 Newspapers since 1945 / Glenn Wallach 403
- 16 The Once and Future Book / Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, Jeffrey D. Groves 435
- 17 Resources for Studying American Book History: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography / Joanne D. Chaison 441.
- Notes:
- "In association with American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Center of the Book, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1558493166
- 1558493174
- OCLC:
- 48475619
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