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Empire of Print:

The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
  • ISBN-13: 9780271078519
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Steven Carl Smith
  • Price: AUD $217.00
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2017
  • Format: Hardback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Microeconomics [KCC]
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Traces the evolution of New York’s publishing trade from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. Explores the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks in the early republic.


List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Pertinent Details

Chapter 1: Samuel Loudon and the Building of the Empire State in Print

Chapter 2: William Gordon, Print Culture, and the Politics of History

Chapter 3: John Ward Fenno’s Book Shop Politics

Chapter 4: Literary Fairs and National Ambitions

Chapter 5: Evert Duyckinck and the National Book Trade

Afterword: Print and Memory in an Age of Change

Selected Bibliography

Notes

Index


“An important contribution to the history of the book and literacy in America.”

—Howard B. Rock, American Historical Review

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