| Title | Perspectives on American book history : artifacts and commentary / edited by Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves.
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| Published | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society ; Washington, D.C. : Center for the Book, Library of Congress, c2002.
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| Description | ix, 461 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
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| Series | Studies in print culture and the history of the book
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| ISBN | 1-55849-316-6 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1-55849-317-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Texts for the times : an introduction to book history / Robert A. Gross -- Literacy and reading in Puritan New England / Jill Lepore -- Print and everyday life in the eighteenth century / Patricia Crain -- Publishing the American revolution / Russell L. Martin -- The book trade transformed / Jeffrey D. Groves -- Antebellum reading prescribed and described / Scott E. Casper -- Publishing an emergent "American" literature / Susan S. Williams -- Northern and southern worlds of print / Alice Fahs -- Reshaping publishing and authorship in the gilded age / Nancy Cook -- Print cultures in the American West / Jen A. Huntley-Smith -- Laboring classes, new readers and print cultures / Ann Fabian -- The industrialization and nationalization of American periodical publishing / Charles Johanningsmeier -- Print and the creation of middlebrow culture / Trysh Travis -- Out of the mainstream and into the the streets : small press magazines, and the undergraound press, zines and artists' books / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Newspapers since 1945 / Glenn Wallach -- The once and future book / Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison and Jeffrey D. Groves -- Resources for studying American book history : a selective, annotated bibliography / Joanne D. Chaison .
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| System Details | System requirements for disc: Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator).
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| Subjects | Book industries and trade -- Social aspects -- United States.
Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- Sources.
United States -- Intellectual life.
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| Other Authors | Casper, Scott E.
Chaison, Joanne D., 1944-
Groves, Jeffrey D., 1959-
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| LC Card Number | 2001-6911 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: Z 471 P467
mq226423: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 136998] |
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