Waubonsee Community College

The colonial book in the Atlantic world, edited by Hugh Amory & David D. Hall

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 524-617) and index

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The colonial book in the Atlantic world

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edited by Hugh Amory & David D. Hall

"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."--Jacket

A history of the book in America, v. 1

Introduction : pt. 1. Some contexts and questions. pt. 2. The Europeans' encounter with the native Americans / David D. Hall -- Reinventing the colonial book / Hugh Amory -- The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century / David D. Hall -- Printing and bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 / Hugh Amory -- Readers and writers in early New England / David D. Hall -- The Atlantic world. pt. 1. The Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall. pt. 2. Printers' supplies and capitalization / John Bidwell. pt. 3. The importation of books in the eighteenth century / James Raven -- The book trade in the middle colonies, 1680-1720 / James N. Green -- The southern book trade in the eighteenth century / Calhoun Winton -- The middle colonies, 1720-1790. pt. 1. English books and printing in the age of Franklin / James N. Green. pt. 2. German and Dutch books and printing / A. Gregg Roeber -- The New England book trade, 1713-1790 / Hugh Amory -- Periodicals and politics. pt. 1. Early American journalism : news and opinion in the popular press / Charles E. Clark. pt. 2. The shifting freedoms of the press in the eighteenth century / Richard D. Brown -- Practices of reading. pt. 1. Introduction / David D. Hall and Elizabeth Carroll Reilly. pt. 1. Literacy and schoolbooks / Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan. pt. 2. Customers and the market for books / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall. pt. 3. Libraries and their users / Ross W. Beales and James N. Green. pt. 4. Modalities of reading / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall -- Learned culture in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall -- Eighteenth-century literary culture / David S. Shields