A history of the book in America. Volume 1, The Colonial book in the Atlantic world / edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amory, Hugh.

Hall, David D.

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--18th century.

Book industries and trade.

Publishers and publishing--United States--History--18th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Books and reading--United States--History--18th century.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (665 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Summary:

Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English books; 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 Word,"" organized around a

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Authors' and Editors' Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART 1. Some Contexts and Questions; PART 2. The Europeans' Encounter with Native Americans; CHAPTER 1 Reinventing the Colonial Book; CHAPTER 2 The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century; CHAPTER 3 Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713; CHAPTER 4 Readers and Writers in Early New England; CHAPTER 5 The Atlantic World; PART 1. The Atlantic Economy in the Eighteenth Century; PART 2. Printers' Supplies and Capitalization

PART 3. The Importation of Books in the Eighteenth CenturyCHAPTER 6 The Book Trade in the Middle Colonies, 1680-1720; CHAPTER 7 The Southern Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century; CHAPTER 8 The Middle Colonies, 1720-1790; PART 1. English Books and Printing in the Age of Franklin; PART 2. German and Dutch Books and Printing; CHAPTER 9 The New England Book Trade, 1713-1790; CHAPTER 10 Periodicals and Politics; PART 1. Early American Journalism: News and Opinion in the Popular Press; PART 2. The Shifting Freedoms of the Press in the Eighteenth Century; CHAPTER 11 Practices of Reading

IntroductionPART 1. Literacy and Schoolbooks; PART 2. Customers and the Market for Books; PART 3. Libraries and Their Users; PART 4. Modalities of Reading; CHAPTER 12 Learned Culture in the Eighteenth Century; CHAPTER 13 Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture; Afterword; A Select Bibliography; Appendix 1. A Note on Statistics; Appendix 2. A Note on Popular and Durable Authors and Titles; Appendix 3. A Note on Book Prices; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-300-4

979-88-908825-2-3

0-8078-6800-0

OCLC:

794715262