Author : Hugh Amory
Release : 2000
Genre : Business & Economics
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A History of the Book in America: Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Book in America: Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World write by Hugh Amory. This book was released on 2000. A History of the Book in America: Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship between European settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a 'culture of the Word', organized around an understanding of print as a vehicle of the sacred, to the culture of republicanism, epitomized by Benjamin Franklin, and culminating in the uses of print during the Revolutionary era. The volume will also describe nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native Americans and African Americans.