Print in motion : the expansion of publishing and reading in the United States, 1880-1940 / edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaestle, Carl F.

Radway, Janice A., 1949-

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Series:

History of the book in America ; v. 4.

A history of the book in America ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade--United States--History--19th century.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--United States--History--20th century.

Publishers and publishing--United States--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--United States--History--20th century.

History.

United States.

Books and reading--United States--History--19th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xvii, 669 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, [2009]

Contents:

A framework for the history of publishing and reading in the United States, 1880-1940 / Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway

Seeing the sites : readers, publishers, and local print cultures in 1880 / Carl F. Kaestle

The rise of a national book trade system in the United States / Michael Winship

The expansion of the national book trade system / James L.W. West III

Copyright in transition / Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee

Diverging paths : books and magazines in the transition to corporate capitalism / Richard Ohmann

From partisanship to professionalism : the transformation of the daily press / Richard L. Kaplan

Persistence of vision : partisan journalism in the mainstream press / Michael Schudson

Unruly servants : machines, modernity, and the printed page / Megan Benton

Ambivalent advertising : books, prestige, and the circulation of publicity / Ellen Gruber Garvey

Learned and literary print cultures in an age of professionalization and diversification / Janice A. Radway

Crafting a communications infrastructure : scientific and technical publishing in the United States / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

The government as publisher / Charles A. Seavey with Caroline F. Sloat

Gilded-age consensus, repressive campaigns, and gradual liberalization : the shifting rhythms of book censorship / Paul S. Boyer

Distinctive media : the European ethnic press in the United States / Sally M. Miller

Exiles, immigrants, and natives : Hispanic print culture in what became the mainland of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos

Reading, writing, and resisting : African American print culture / James P. Danky

An outpouring of "faithful" words : Protestant publishing in the United States / William Vance Trollinger Jr.

Two ambitious goals : American Jewish publishing in the United States / Jonathan D. Sarna

Running the ancient ark by steam : Catholic publishing / Una M. Cadegan

From McGuffey to Dick and Jane : reading textbooks / Richard L. Venezky with Carl F. Kaestle

The American public library : construction of a community reading institution / Wayne A. Wiegand

The great libraries / Phyllis Dain

Aflame with culture : reading and social mission in the nineteenth-century white women's literary club movement / Elizabeth Long

Reading and race pride : the literary activism of Black clubwomen / Elizabeth McHenry

Making meaning : analysis and affect in the study and practice of reading / Joan Shelley Rubin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [537]-621) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780807831861

0807831867

OCLC:

221141654