A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA: VOLUME 1, THE COLONIAL BOOK IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD by Hugh Amory (Editor), David D. Hall (Editor) ( 9780521482561 )

Item Details

Title:

A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA: VOLUME 1, THE COLONIAL BOOK IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD

By:

Hugh Amory (Editor), David D. Hall (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£120.00
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10:

0521482569

ISBN 13:

9780521482561

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

13 December, 1999

Series:

History of the Book in America

Pages:

662

Description:

Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America encompasses seventeenth and eighteenth century book history.

Synopsis:

Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship between European settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a 'culture of the Word', organized around an understanding of print as a vehicle of the sacred, to the culture of republicanism, epitomized by Benjamin Franklin, and culminating in the uses of print during the Revolutionary era. The volume will also describe nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native Americans and African Americans.

Illustrations:

69 b/w illus. 2 tables

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA

A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA (HB)