The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780807868003
Description: A History of the Book in America: Volume I
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part 1. Some Contexts and Questions; title: Part 2. Europeans' Encounter with the Native Americans / David D. Hall; title: Ch. 1. Reinventing the Colonial Book / Hugh Amory; title: Ch. 2. Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century / David D. Hall; title: Ch. 3. Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 / Hugh Amory; title: Ch. 4. Readers and Writers in Early New England / David D. Hall; title: Ch. 5. Atlantic World; title: Pt. 1. Atlantic Economy in the Eighteenth Century / David D. Hall; title: Pt. 2. Printers' Supplies and Capitalization / John Bidwell; title: Pt. 3. Importation of Books in the Eighteenth Century / James Raven; title: Ch. 6. Book Trade in the Middle Colonies, 1680-1720 / James N. Green; title: Ch. 7. Southern Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century / Calhoun Winton; title: Ch. 8. Middle Colonies, 1720-1790; title: Pt. 1. English Books and Printing in the Age of Franklin / James N. Green; title: Pt. 2. German and Dutch Books and Printing / A. Gregg Roeber; title: Ch. 9. New England Book Trade, 1713-1790 / Hugh Amory; title: Ch. 10. Periodicals and Politics; title: Pt. 1. Early American Journalism: News and Opinion in the Popular Press / Charles E. Clark; title: Pt. 2. Shifting Freedoms of the Press in the Eighteenth Century / Richard D. Brown; title: Ch. 11. Practices of Reading; title: Introduction / David D. Hall and Elizabeth Carroll Reilly; title: Pt. 1. Literacy and Schoolbooks / Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan; title: Pt. 2. Customers and the Market for Books / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall; title: Pt. 3. Libraries and Their Users / Ross W. Beales and James N. Green; title: Pt. 4. Modalities of Reading / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall; title: Ch. 12. Learned Culture in the Eighteenth Century / David D. Hall; title: Ch. 13. Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture / David S. Shields; title: Afterword / Hugh Amory and David D. Hall; title: Select Bibliography / Hugh Amory; title: App. 1. Note on Statistics / Hugh Amory; title: App. 2. Note on Popular and Durable Authors and Titles / David D. Hall and Russell L. Martin; title: App. 3. Note on Book Prices / Russell L. Martin