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Author Monaghan, E. Jennifer, 1933-

Title Learning to read and write in Colonial America / E. Jennifer Monaghan.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, [2005]
©2005
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  LC151 .M66 2005    Available  ---
Description xiii, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-460) and index.
Contents Literacy and the law in orthodox New England -- Literacy and the Indians of Massachusetts Bay -- Books read by children at home and at school -- Death and literacy in two devout Boston families -- The literacy mission of the S.P.G -- Literacy and the Mohawks -- Schools, schoolteachers, and schoolchildren -- The rise of the spelling book -- Literacy instruction and the enslaved -- Writing instruction -- The new world of children's books -- Literacy in three families of the 1770s.
Subject Literacy -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
Literacy.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Literacy -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
Books and reading.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
ISBN 1558494863 cloth alkaline paper
9781558494862 cloth alkaline paper

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