The five volumes in A History of the Book in America offer a sweeping chronicle of our country’s print production and culture from colonial times to the end of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary, collaborative work of scholarship examines the book trades as they have developed and spread throughout the United States; provides a history of U.S. literary cultures; investigates the practice of reading and, more broadly, the uses of literacy; and links literary culture with larger themes in American history.Now available for the first time, this complete Omnibus ebook contains all 5 volumes of this landmark work.Volume 1The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World Edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall664 pp., 51 illus.Volume 2An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840Edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley712 pp., 66 illus.Volume 3The Industrial Book, 1840-1880Edited by Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship560 pp., 43 illus.Volume 4Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940Edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway688 pp., 74 illus.Volume 5The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America Edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson632 pp., 95 illus.
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