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Title A history of the book in America. Volume 5, The enduring book, print culture in postwar America / edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson
Published Chapel Hill : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
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Description 1 online resource (5 volumes) : illustrations, maps
Series A history of the book in America ; volume 5
History of the book in America ; v. 5.
Contents v. 1. The colonial book in the Atlantic world -- v. 2. An extensive republic: print, culture, and society in the new nation, 1790-1840 -- v. 3. The industrial book, 1840-1880 -- v. 4. Print in motion: the expansion of publishing and reading in the United States, 1880-1940 -- v. 5. The enduring book: print culture in postwar America
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 17th century
Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 17th century
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Book industries and trade
Publishers and publishing
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Nord, David Paul, editor
Rubin, Joan Shelley, 1947- editor.
Schudson, Michael, editor
American Antiquarian Society.
ISBN 9781469627212
1469627213
1469625830
9781469625836
Other Titles Enduring book : print culture in postwar America