The colonial book in the Atlantic world / edited by Hugh Amory & David D. Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amory, Hugh.

Hall, David D.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

History of the book in America ; v. 1.

A history of the book in America ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade--United States--History--17th century.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--United States--History--18th century.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 638 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; [Worcester, Mass.] : American Antiquarian Society, 2000.

Summary:

"Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New; the gradual emergence of a competitive book trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a "culture of the World, " organized around an essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and reading, complemented by other frameworks of meaning that included the culture of republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Introduction : pt.1. Some contexts and questions. pt.2. The Europeans' encounter with the native Americans / David D. Hall

Reinventing the colonial book / Hugh Amory

The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century / David D. Hall

Printing and bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 / Hugh Amory

Readers and writers in early New England / David D. Hall

The Atlantic world. pt.1. The Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall. pt.2. Printers' supplies and capitalization / John Bidwell. pt.3. The importation of books in the eighteenth century / James Raven

The book trade in the middle colonies, 1680-1720 / James N. Green

The southern book trade in the eighteenth century / Calhoun Winton

The middle colonies, 1720-1790. pt.1. English books and printing in the age of Franklin / James N. Green. pt.2. German and Dutch books and printing / A. Gregg Roeber

The New England book trade, 1713-1790 / Hugh Amory

Periodicals and politics. pt.1. Early American journalism : news and opinion in the popular press / Charles E. Clark. pt.2. The shifting freedoms of the press in the eighteenth century / Richard D. Brown

Practices of reading. pt.1. Introduction / David D. Hall and Elizabeth Carroll Reilly. pt.1. Literacy and schoolbooks / Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan. pt.2. Customers and the market for books / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall. pt.3. Libraries and their users / Ross W. Beales and James N. Green. pt.4. Modalities of reading / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall

Learned culture in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall

Eighteenth-century literary culture / David S. Shields.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 524-617) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0521482569

9780521482561

OCLC:

40738885

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