A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA by Hugh Amory (Editor), David D. Hall (Editor), Hugh Amory ( 9780807858264 )

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Title:

A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA

Volume:

v. 1

By:

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

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£58.50
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ISBN 10:

0807858269

ISBN 13:

9780807858264

Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Pub. date:

16 April, 2007

Pages:

664

Description:

Covers the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. This title also traces the histories of literary and learned culture, censorship and "freedom of the press," and literacy and orality.

Synopsis:

"The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a "culture of the Word," organized around an essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and reading, complemented by other frameworks of meaning that included the culture of republicanism. "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" also traces the histories of literary and learned culture, censorship and "freedom of the press," and literacy and orality.

Illustrations:

51 illustrations, 5 tables, 15 graphs

Publication:

Imprint:

The University of North Carolina Press

Returns:

Returnable

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