| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Tells how the American Bible Society, a modest antebellum reform agency, responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States. |
| Contents |
1. A Bible House in the City -- 2. From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers -- 3. Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 -- 4. Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" -- 5. Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists -- 6. "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 -- 8. Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- 9. Bringing System and Order to the Agency: Bible Work in the Levant, 1854-1889 -- Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" to "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American Bible Society -- History -- 19th century.
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American Bible Society. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Bible -- Publication and distribution -- United States.
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Bible. |
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United States. |
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American Bible Society. |
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Bible. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wosh, Peter J. Spreading the word. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994 0801429285 (DLC) 93043880 (OCoLC)29466230 |
| ISBN |
9781501711459 (electronic book) |
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1501711458 (electronic book) |
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0801429285 |
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9780801429286 |
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