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The republic in print : print culture in the age of U.S. nation building, 1770-1870 / Trish Loughran.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z473 .L826 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loughran, Trish, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Publishers and publishing--United States--History--18th century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--History--19th century.
- Press and politics--United States--History--18th century.
- Press and politics.
- Press and politics--United States--History--19th century.
- Press--United States--History--18th century.
- Press.
- Press--United States--History--19th century.
- Book industries and trade--United States--History--18th century.
- Book industries and trade.
- Book industries and trade--United States--History--19th century.
- Books and reading--United States--History--18th century.
- Books and reading.
- Books and reading--United States--History--19th century.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 537 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Preface. A View from the Capitol: The Unfinished Work of U.S. Nation Building xvii
- 1 U.S. Print Culture: The Factory of Fragments 1
- Part 1 The Book's Two Bodies: Print Culture and National Founding, 1776-1789
- 2 Disseminating Common Sense: Thomas Paine and the Scene of Revolutionary Print Culture 33
- 3 The Republic in Print: Ratification as Material Text, 1787-1788 105
- Part 2 The Nation in Fragments: Federal Representation and Its Discontents, 1787-1789
- 4 Virtual Nation: State-Based Identity and Federalist Fantasy 161
- 5 Metrobuilding: The Production of Federalist Space 223
- Part 3 The Overextended Republic: Slavery, Abolition, and National Space, 1790-1870
- 6 Abolitionist Nation: The Space of Organized Abolition, 1790 - 1840 303
- 7 Slavery on the Move: From Fugitive Slave to Virtual Citizen 363
- Conclusion. The Due Process of Nationalism 441
- Abbreviations for Works Frequently Cited 445.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [447]-514) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780231139083
- 023113908X
- 9780231511230
- 023151123X
- OCLC:
- 78790285
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