A History of the Book in America: Volume III
Subtitle: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880 (A History of the Book in America)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: July 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780807830857
Subjects: Literacy; Publishing industry; Social history; History; History - U.S.; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: American; USA; Books & Reading; Industries - Media & Communications Industries; United States - 19th Century; manufacturing and book production; labor and labor organization in printing and publishing; authors and literary authorship; The National Book Trade System; distribution and the book trade; trade communication; courtesy of the trade; international book tr; Corporate & Business History - General; Publishing; 19th century; Book industries and trade; Books and reading; Publishers and publishing; United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Scott E. Casper; title: Chapter 1. Manufacturing and Book Production / Michael Winship; title: Chapter 2. Labor and Labor Organization / Bruce Laurie; title: Chapter 3. Authors and Literary Authorship / Susan S. Williams; title: Chapter 4. The National Book Trade System; title: Part 1. Distribution and the Trade / Michael Winship; title: Part 2. Trade Communication / Jeffrey D. Groves; title: Part 3. Courtesy of the Trade / Jeffrey D. Groves; title: Part 4. The International Trade in Books / Michael Winship; title: Chapter 5. The Role of Government; title: Part 1. Copyright / Meredith L. McGill; title: Part 2. The Census, the Post Office, and Governmental Publishing / Scott E. Casper; title: Chapter 6. Alternative Publishing Systems; title: Part 1. Diversification in American Religious Publishing / Paul C. Gutjahr; title: Part 2. Other Variations on the Trade / Scott E. Casper; title: Chapter 7. Periodicals and Serial Publication; title: Introduction / Jeffrey D. Groves; title: Part 1. Newspapers and the Public Sphere / John Nerone; title: Part 2. The Business of American Magazines / Eric Lupfer; title: Part 3. The Cultural Work of National Magazines / Susan Belasco; title: Part 4. Religious Periodicals and Their Textual Communities / Candy Gunther Brown; title: Chapter 8. Ideologies and Practices of Reading / Barbara Sicherman; title: Chapter 9. Sites of Reading; title: Part 1. Libraries / Kenneth E. Carpenter; title: Part 2. Homes, Books, and Reading / Louise Stevenson; title: Part 3. City Streets and the Urban World of Print / David M. Henkin; title: Chapter 10. Cultures of Print; title: Part 1. Erudition and Learned Culture / David D. Hall; title: Part 2. African American Cultures of Print / Jeannine Marie DeLombard; title: Part 3. Literacies, Readers, and Cultures of Print in the South / Amy M. Thomas; title: Chapter 11. Alternative Communication Practices and the Industrial Book; title: Part 1. Speech, Print, and Reform on Nantucket / Lloyd Pratt; title: Part 2. Handwriting in an Age of Industrial Print / Tamara Plakins Thornton; title: Part 3. Amateur Authorship / Ann Fabian; title: Coda / Scott E. Casper