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A history of the book in Americaedited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill, : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (5 volumes) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469627212
Other title:
  • Enduring book : print culture in postwar America
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • Z473 .H578 2009
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
volume 2.An extensive republic: print, culture, and society in the new nation, 1790-1840 -- volume 3.The industrial book, 1840-1880 -- volume 4. Print in motion: the expansion of publishing and reading in the United States, 1880-1940 -- volume 5.The enduring book: print culture in postwar America.
Subject: V. 1. The colonial book in the Atlantic world: This book carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. volume 2 An Extensive Republic: This volume documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic. volume 3. The industrial book 1840-1880: This volume covers the creation, distribution, and uses of print and books in the mid-nineteenth century, when a truly national book trade emerged. volume 4. Print in Motion: 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. volume 5. The Enduring Book: This volume addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from Word War II to the present.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

volume 1. The colonial book in the Atlantic world -- volume 2.An extensive republic: print, culture, and society in the new nation, 1790-1840 -- volume 3.The industrial book, 1840-1880 -- volume 4. Print in motion: the expansion of publishing and reading in the United States, 1880-1940 -- volume 5.The enduring book: print culture in postwar America.

V. 1. The colonial book in the Atlantic world: This book carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. volume 2 An Extensive Republic: This volume documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic. volume 3. The industrial book 1840-1880: This volume covers the creation, distribution, and uses of print and books in the mid-nineteenth century, when a truly national book trade emerged. volume 4. Print in Motion: 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. volume 5. The Enduring Book: This volume addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from Word War II to the present.

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