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An extensive republic : print, culture, and society in the new nation, 1790-1840 / edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley

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Chapel Hill : Published in Association with the American Antiquarian Society by The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
xix, 697 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators
Gross, Robert A., 1945- and Kelley, Mary, 1943-

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Contents
The revolution's legacy for the history of the book / Richard D. Brown -- The rise of book publishing / James N. Green -- Case study : Harper & Brothers / Scott E. Casper -- Case study : urban printing / Karen Nipps -- Printing is something every village has in it : rural printing and publishing / Jack Larkin -- Of the paper cap and inky apron : journeymen printers / William S. Pretzer -- Print and politics / John L. Brooke -- Have pen, will travel : the times and life of John Norvell, political journalist / Jeffery L. Pasley -- Copyright / Meredith L. McGill -- Expanding the realm of communications / Richard R. John -- Benevolent books : printing, religion, and reform / David Paul Nord -- The learned world / David S. Shields -- Libraries / Kenneth E. Carpenter -- Schools / Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis -- Schoolbooks / Charles Monaghan and E. Jennifer Monaghan -- Colleges and print culture / Dean Grodzins and Leon Jackson -- Female academies and seminaries and print culture / Mary Kelley -- Men writing in the early republic / David Leverenz -- Women writing in the early republic / Joanne Dobson and Sandra A. Zagarell -- Newspapers and periodicals / Andie Tucher -- Harriet Newell's story : women, the evangelical press, and the foreign mission movement / Mary Kupiec Cayton -- Making friends at the Southern literary messenger / Leon Jackson -- Transformations in pictorial printing / Georgia B. Barnhill -- Novels / Elizabeth Barnes -- Travel books / Dona Brown -- Biography / Scott E. Casper -- Readers and writers of German / A. Gregg Roeber -- Give me a sign : African Americans, print and practice / Grey Gundaker -- Literacy and colonization : the case of the Cherokees / Barry O'Connell -- Reading for an extensive republic / Robert A. Gross.
Summary
""This impressive collaborative effort by two dozen leading authorities in the field will be essential reading for any serious student of the history of American publishing and print culture during one of its most crucially transformative periods." Lawrence Buell, Harvard University" ""A magnificent achievement. Brilliant editing and graceful writing shatter many old assumptions about the world of the Founders. Linking intellectual history with politics, social change, and the distinctive experiences of women, African Americans and Indians, An Extensive Republic is the rare reference book that is also a mesmerizing read." Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship" ""This volume provides a fascinating revisionist history of the United States through its focus on what was printed, how the economy of the book trades worked, who was reading, and what role reading came to assume in all sorts of people's lives. Editors Gross and Kelley make a strong team, and the contributors represent an array of disciplines suitable to the equally wide range of printed material in the United States between 1790 and 1840." Patricia Crain, New York University" "Volume 2 of A History of the Book in America documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic." "Between 1790 and 1840 printing and publishing expanded, and literate publics provided a ready market for novels, almanacs, newspapers, tracts, and periodicals. Government, business, and reform drove the dissemination of print. Through laws and subsidies, state and federal authorities promoted an informed citizenry. Entrepreneurs responded to rising demand by investing in new technologies and altering the conduct of publishing. Voluntary societies launched libraries, lyceums, and schools, and relied on print to spread religion, redeem morals, and advance benevolent goals. Out of all this ferment emerged new and diverse communities of citizens linked together in a decentralized print culture where citizenship meant literacy and print meant power. Yet in a diverse and far-flung nation, regional differences persisted, and older forms of oral and handwritten communication offered alternatives to print. The early republic was a world of mixed media."--BOOK JACKET.
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9780807833391 (alk. paper)
0807833398 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [551]-668) and index.
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