A history of the book in America. Volume 1, The Colonial book in the Atlantic world
This text encompasses the 17th and 18th centuries. It also describes nascent forms of literary and learned culture, literacy censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native and African Americans
Print Book, English, 2000
American Antiquarian Society ; Cambridge University Press, Worcester, Mass., Cambridge, 2000
History
xxiv, 638 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521482561, 0521482569
1008096224
Introduction : pt. 1. Some contexts and questions. pt. 2. The Europeans' encounter with the native Americans / David D. Hall
Reinventing the colonial book / Hugh Amory
The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century / David D. Hall
Printing and bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 / Hugh Amory
Readers and writers in early New England / David D. Hall
The Atlantic world. pt. 1. The Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall. pt. 2. Printers' supplies and capitalization / John Bidwell. pt. 3. The importation of books in the eighteenth century / James Raven
The book trade in the middle colonies, 1680-1720 / James N. Green
The southern book trade in the eighteenth century / Calhoun Winton
The middle colonies, 1720-1790. pt. 1. English books and printing in the age of Franklin / James N. Green. pt. 2. German and Dutch books and printing / A. Gregg Roeber
The New England book trade, 1713-1790 / Hugh Amory
Periodicals and politics. pt. 1. Early American journalism : news and opinion in the popular press / Charles E. Clark. pt. 2. The shifting freedoms of the press in the eighteenth century / Richard D. Brown
Practices of reading. pt. 1. Introduction / David D. Hall and Elizabeth Carroll Reilly. pt. 1. Literacy and schoolbooks / Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan. pt. 2. Customers and the market for books / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall. pt. 3. Libraries and their users / Ross W. Beales and James N. Green. pt. 4. Modalities of reading / Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall
Learned culture in the eighteenth century / David D. Hall
Eighteenth-century literary culture / David S. Shields