A History of the Book in America: Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic WorldHugh Amory, David D. Hall A History of the Book in America is a five-volume, interdisciplinary series that offers a collaborative history of the book in American culture from the earliest days of European settlement to our own days. Its creation is a principal activity of the American Antiquarian Society. Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World 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" to the culture of republicanism. 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. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 26 |
The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century | 55 |
Printing and Bookselling in New England 16381713 | 83 |
Readers and Writers in Early New England | 117 |
The Atlantic World | 152 |
CHAPTER | 199 |
The Southern Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century | 224 |
The Middle Colonies 17201790 | 247 |
CHAPTER | 347 |
CHAPTER | 377 |
CHAPTER | 411 |
EighteenthCentury Literary Culture | 434 |
Afterword | 477 |
A Note on Statistics | 504 |
A Note on Popular and Durable Authors and Titles | 519 |
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