A History of the Book in America: Volume 5: the Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America
- ISBN-10
- 0807832855
- ISBN-13
- 9780807832851
- Series
- A History of the Book in America
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 618
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Authors
- David D. Hall, David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin
Description
V. 1. The colonial book in the Atlantic world: This book carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. v. 2 An Extensive Republic: This volume documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic. v. 3. The industrial book 1840-1880: This volume covers the creation, distribution, and uses of print and books in the mid-nineteenth century, when a truly national book trade emerged. v. 4. Print in Motion: In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. v. 5. The Enduring Book: This volume addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from Word War II to the present.
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