An extensive republic : print, culture, and society in the new nation, 1790-1840 / edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley.

Other author Gross, Robert A., 1945-
Other author Kelley, Mary, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : Published in Association with the American Antiquarian Society by The University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxix, 697 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesA history of the book in America ; v. 2
History of the book in America ; v. 2. ^A720678
Contents The revolution's legacy for the history of the book / Richard D. Brown -- The rise of book publishing / James N. Green -- Case study : Harper & Brothers / Scott E. Casper -- Case study : urban printing / Karen Nipps -- Printing is something every village has in it : rural printing and publishing / Jack Larkin -- Of the paper cap and inky apron : journeymen printers / William S. Pretzer -- Print and politics / John L. Brooke -- Have pen, will travel : the times and life of John Norvell, political journalist / Jeffery L. Pasley -- Copyright / Meredith L. McGill -- Expanding the realm of communications / Richard R. John -- Benevolent books : printing, religion, and reform / David Paul Nord -- The learned world / David S. Shields -- Libraries / Kenneth E. Carpenter -- Schools / Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis -- Schoolbooks / Charles Monaghan and E. Jennifer Monaghan -- Colleges and print culture / Dean Grodzins and Leon Jackson -- Female academies and seminaries and print culture / Mary Kelley -- Men writing in the early republic / David Leverenz -- Women writing in the early republic / Joanne Dobson and Sandra A. Zagarell -- Newspapers and periodicals / Andie Tucher -- Harriet Newell's story : women, the evangelical press, and the foreign mission movement / Mary Kupiec Cayton -- Making friends at the Southern literary messenger / Leon Jackson -- Transformations in pictorial printing / Georgia B. Barnhill -- Novels / Elizabeth Barnes -- Travel books / Dona Brown -- Biography / Scott E. Casper -- Readers and writers of German / A. Gregg Roeber -- Give me a sign : African Americans, print and practice / Grey Gundaker -- Literacy and colonization : the case of the Cherokees / Barry O'Connell -- Reading for an extensive republic / Robert A. Gross.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [553]-668) and index.
LCCN 2009052183
ISBN9780807833391 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807833398 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks Z473 .E98 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold