A history of the book in America. Volume 4, 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., editor.

Radway, Janice A., 1949- editor.

Series:

History of the book in America ; Volume 4.

A History of the Book in America ; Volume 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth.Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers.

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:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781469627205

1469627205

OCLC:

966791069