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Title Perspectives on American book history : artifacts and commentary / edited by Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society ; Washington, D.C. : Center for the Book, Library of Congress, [2002]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  002 P467P    Check Shelf
Description ix, 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
Series Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
System Details System requirements for disc: Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator).
Subject Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Book industries and trade -- Social aspects -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects -- United States.
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Intellectual life.
Added Author Casper, Scott E.
Chaison, Joanne D., 1944-
Groves, Jeffrey D., 1959-
ISBN 1558493166 alkaline paper
1558493174 paperback alkaline paper
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