An extensive republic :  print, culture, and society in the new nation, 1790-1840 / 
edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley. 
 - Chapel Hill :  Published in Association with the American Antiquarian Society by The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2010. 
 - 1 online resource (xix, 697 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - A history of the book in America ;  volume 2 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The revolution's legacy for the history of the book /  The rise of book publishing /  Case study : Harper and Brothers /  Case study : urban printing /  Printing is something every village has in it : rural printing and publishing /  Of the paper cap and inky apron : journeymen printers /  Print and politics /  Have pen, will travel : the times and life of John Norvell, political journalist /  Copyright /  Expanding the realm of communications /  Benevolent books : printing, religion, and reform /  The learned world /  Libraries /  Schools /  Schoolbooks /  Colleges and print culture /  Female academies and seminaries and print culture /  Men writing in the early republic /  Women writing in the early republic /  Newspapers and periodicals /  Harriet Newell's story : women, the evangelical press, and the foreign mission movement /  Making friends at the Southern literary messenger /  Transformations in pictorial printing /  Novels /  Travel books /  Biography /  Readers and writers of German /  Give me a sign : African Americans, print and practice /  Literacy and colonization : the case of the Cherokees /  Reading for an extensive republic /  Richard D. Brown --  James N. Green --  Scott E. Casper --  Karen Nipps --  Jack Larkin --  William S. Pretzer --  John L. Brooke --  Jeffery L. Pasley --  Meredith L. McGill --  Richard R. John --  David Paul Nord --  David S. Shields --  Kenneth E. Carpenter --  Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis --  Charles Monaghan and E. Jennifer Monaghan --  Dean Grodzins and Leon Jackson --  Mary Kelley --  David Leverenz --  Joanne Dobson and Sandra A. Zagarell --  Andie Tucher --  Mary Kupiec Cayton --  Leon Jackson --  Georgia B. Barnhill --  Elizabeth Barnes --  Dona Brown --  Scott E. Casper --  A. Gregg Roeber --  Grey Gundaker --  Barry O'Connell --  Robert A. Gross. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469627199 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Book industries and trade--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Publishers and publishing--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Printing--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Book industries and trade.<br/>Books and reading.<br/>Printing.<br/>Publishers and publishing.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z473  / .E984 2010