A History of the Book in America

by Amory, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780807858264
• ISBN10: 0807858269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-16
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America encompasses seventeenth and eighteenth century book history.

Table of Contents

Introduction: some contexts and questions: the Europeans' encounter with the Native Americans

Re-inventing the Colonial book

The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century

Printing and bookselling in New England 1638-1713

Readers and writers in seventeenth-century New England

The Atlantic world

The Atlantic Economy in the Eighteenth Century

Printers' Supplies and Capitalization

The Importation of Books in the Eighteenth Century

Note Imports and Domestic Production:

The book trade in the Middle Colonies, 1680-1720

The Southern book trade in the eighteenth century

The book trade in the Middle Colonies in the age of

The German and Dutch Language Books and Printing:

The New England Book Trade. 1713-1790

Periodicals and politics

Early American Journalism: news and opinion in the Popular Press

Shifting Freedoms of the Press in the Eighteenth Century

Practices of reading: introduction

Literacy and schoolbooks

Customers and the marketplace for books Elizabeth

Learned culture in the eighteenth century

Literary culture in the eighteenth century

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