num_pages: 286
description: Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.
language: English
title: Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America
titlecomplete: Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Cornell University Press