A History of the Book in America, Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World

Amory, Hugh [Editor]; Hall, David D. [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0521482569 / ISBN 13: 9780521482561

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1999

About this Item

Volume 1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Small tear to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. xxiv, 638 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. Covers the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. This title also traces the histories of literary and learned culture, censorship and ""freedom of the press,"" and literacy and orality.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of the Book in America, Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521482569
• ISBN 13: 9780521482561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 37 ounces
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Synopsis

Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship between European settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a 'culture of the Word', organized around an understanding of print as a vehicle of the sacred, to the culture of republicanism, epitomized by Benjamin Franklin, and culminating in the uses of print during the Revolutionary era. The volume will also describe nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native Americans and African Americans.

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.