A History of the Book in America: Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World (History of the Book in America (University of NC)): 01 (History Book America) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807858269 ISBN 13: 9780807858264

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2007

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About the Author

Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was Senior Rare Book Cataloger at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

From the Back Cover

"Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New; 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 World, " organized around an essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and reading, complemented by other frameworks of meaning that included the culture of republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.

From the Inside Flap

This first volume of the five-volume series on the history of the book in America 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; 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 an essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and reading. The volume also traces the histories of literary and learned culture, censorship and "freedom of the press," and literacy and orality.

Edition details

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807858269
• ISBN 13: 9780807858264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 664
• Editor: Amory Hugh