LEADER 04123nam 2200529 a 450 001 9910791813603321 005 20230721012908.0 010 $a0-8078-6800-0 035 $a(CKB)2560000000070946 035 $a(EBL)879984 035 $a(OCoLC)794715262 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC879984 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL879984 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10460904 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000070946 100 $a20110430d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 02$aA history of the book in America$hVolume 1$iThe Colonial book in the Atlantic world$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall 210 $aChapel Hill, N.C. $cPublished in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (665 p.) 225 1 $aA history of the book in America ;$vv. 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5826-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aPART 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 Reading 327 $aIntroductionPART 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; Z 330 $aVolume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a ""culture of the Word,"" organized around a 410 0$aHistory of the book in America ;$vv. 1. 606 $aBook industries and trade$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPublishers and publishing$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory 615 0$aPublishers and publishing$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 676 $a381.450020973 676 $a381/.45002/0973 701 $aAmory$b Hugh$01480474 701 $aHall$b David D$086645 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791813603321 996 $aA history of the book in America$93810418 997 $aUNINA