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A History of the Book in America: Volume 3: the Industrial Book, 1840-1880 New Edition
Author(s): David D. Hall
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 30 Aug. 2007
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 560 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780807830857
- ISBN-13: 0807830852
Book Description
Volume 3 of “”A History of the Book in America”” narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers. Chapters trace the ascent of the “”industrial book”” – a manufactured product arising from the gradual adoption of new printing, binding, and illustration technologies and encompassing the profusion of nineteenth-century printed materials – which relied on nationwide networks of financing, transportation, and communication. In tandem with increasing educational opportunities and rising literacy rates, the industrial book encouraged new sites of reading; gave voice to diverse communities of interest through periodicals, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed forms; and played a vital role in the development of American culture.
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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 American citizenship, economic success, and cultural achievement.
About the Author
Scott E. Casper is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. Lucinda M. Long, a graduate student in the history department at the University of Nevada, Reno, is completing her masters thesis on masculinity and the Forest Service.
