Title: The republic in print
Subtitle: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870
Description: "Combining a materialist history of American nation building with an intellectual history of American federalism, Loughran challenges the idea that print culture created a sense of national connection among different parts of the early American union and instead reveals the early republic as a series of local and regional reading publics with distinct political and geographical identities." "Focusing on the years between 1770 and 1870, Loughran develops two arguments. First, she suggests that it was the relative lack of a national infrastructure (rather than the existence of a tightly connected print network) that actually enabled the nation to be imagined in 1776 and ratification to be secured in 1787-88. She then describes how the increasingly connected book market of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s unexpectedly exposed cracks in the evolving nation, especially in regards to slavery, exacerbating regional differences in ways that ultimately contributed to secession and civil war."--Jacket.
Subjects: History, Books and reading, Book industries and trade, Press, Press and politics, Publishers and publishing, Publishers and publishing, united states, Publishers and publishing, history, Press, united states, Book industries and trade, history, Books and reading, history
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century