04123nam 2200529 a 450 991079181360332120230721012908.00-8078-6800-0(CKB)2560000000070946(EBL)879984(OCoLC)794715262(MiAaPQ)EBC879984(Au-PeEL)EBL879984(CaPaEBR)ebr10460904(EXLCZ)99256000000007094620110430d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||A history of the book in AmericaVolume 1The Colonial book in the Atlantic world[electronic resource] /edited by Hugh Amory and David D. HallChapel Hill, N.C. Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (665 p.)A history of the book in America ;v. 1Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5826-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 CapitalizationPART 3. The Importation of Books in the Eighteenth CenturyCHAPTER 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 ReadingIntroductionPART 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZVolume 1, 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 aHistory of the book in America ;v. 1.Book industries and tradeUnited StatesHistory18th centuryPublishers and publishingUnited StatesHistory18th centuryBooks and readingUnited StatesHistory18th centuryBook industries and tradeHistoryPublishers and publishingHistoryBooks and readingHistory381.450020973381/.45002/0973Amory Hugh1480474Hall David D86645MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791813603321A history of the book in America3810418UNINA