Books between Europe and the Americas
Subtitle: connections and communities, 1620-1860
By: edited by Leslie Howsam, James Raven
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780230285675
Subjects: Books and reading; Books; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Leslie Howsam and James Raven; title: Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre : An Early History of Transatlantic Print / Catherine Armstrong; title: Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic : Teaching the History of Faustus Jennifer Mylander; title: Transatlantic News : American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic / Phyllis Whitman Hunter; title: Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancien Régime / François Melançon; title: Bookmen, Naturalists, and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730-60 / Nicholas Wrightson; title: The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City : The Transatlantic Connection / Joyce D. Goodfriend; title: Classical Transports : Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800 / James Raven; title: 'A Small Cargoe for Tryal' : Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century / Michael O'Connor; title: From the French or Not : Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel / Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos; title: 'Learning from Abroad?' : Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America / Eugenia Roldán Vera; title: Business and Reading Across the Atlantic : W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840-60 / Aileen Fyfe; title: 'The Power of Steam' : Antislavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844-60 / Robert J. Scholnick; title: Conclusion / Leslie Howsam and James Raven.