
A History of the Book in America
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Contributors:
Hugh Amory
Ross W. Beales, The College of the Holy Cross
John Bidwell, Princeton University Library
Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut
Charles E. Clark, University of New Hampshire
James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia
David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School
Russell L. Martin, Southern Methodist University
E. Jennifer Monaghan, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York
James Raven, University of Essex
Elizabeth Carroll Reilly, Hardwick, Massachusetts
A. Gregg Roeber, Pennsylvania State University
David S. Shields, University of South Carolina
Calhoun Winton, University of Maryland
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- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Authors' and Editors' Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1. Some Contexts and Questions
- PART 2. The Europeans' Encounter with Native Americans
- CHAPTER 1 Reinventing the Colonial Book
- CHAPTER 2 The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER 3 Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713
- CHAPTER 4 Readers and Writers in Early New England
- CHAPTER 5 The Atlantic World
- PART 1. The Atlantic Economy in the Eighteenth Century
- PART 2. Printers' Supplies and Capitalization
- PART 3. The Importation of Books in the Eighteenth Century
- CHAPTER 6 The Book Trade in the Middle Colonies, 1680-1720
- CHAPTER 7 The Southern Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century
- CHAPTER 8 The Middle Colonies, 1720-1790
- PART 1. English Books and Printing in the Age of Franklin
- PART 2. German and Dutch Books and Printing
- CHAPTER 9 The New England Book Trade, 1713-1790
- CHAPTER 10 Periodicals and Politics
- PART 1. Early American Journalism: News and Opinion in the Popular Press
- PART 2. The Shifting Freedoms of the Press in the Eighteenth Century
- CHAPTER 11 Practices of Reading
- Introduction
- PART 1. Literacy and Schoolbooks
- PART 2. Customers and the Market for Books
- PART 3. Libraries and Their Users
- PART 4. Modalities of Reading
- CHAPTER 12 Learned Culture in the Eighteenth Century
- CHAPTER 13 Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture
- Afterword
- A Select Bibliography
- Appendix 1. A Note on Statistics
- Appendix 2. A Note on Popular and Durable Authors and Titles
- Appendix 3. A Note on Book Prices
- Notes
- Index
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