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Title The industrial book, 1840-1880 / edited by Scott E. Casper [and others].

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 539 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series A history of the book in America ; v. 3
History of the book in America ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Manufacturing and book production -- Labor and labor organization -- Authors and literary authorship -- The national book trade system -- The role of government -- Alternative publishing systems -- Periodicals and serial publication -- Ideologies and practices of reading -- Sites of reading -- Cultures of print -- Alternative communication practices and the industrial book.
Summary This volume of A History of the Book in America covers the creation, distribution, and uses of print and books in the mid-nineteenth century, when a truly national book trade emerged. Essays examine the rise of the manufactured, bound product and the idea of the book as the quintessential product of the industrialization of both the print and papermaking trades, which depended on new nationwide networks for finance, transportation, and communication. The volume also chronicles the rise of a uniquely American print culture, as reading and writing were increasingly conceived of as essential to A.
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Subject Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Book industries and trade.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Publishers and publishing.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Books and reading.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Casper, Scott E.
Other Form: Print version: History of the book in American. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006038982
ISBN 9780807868034 (electronic book)
0807868035 (electronic book)
9781469605470 (electronic book)
1469605473 (electronic book)
9780807830857 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807830852 (cloth ; alkaline paper)