An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (548 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XT9ZT88 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 449 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorSteven Carl Smith is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College.
He discusses the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks, assesses the economic relationships and shared social and cultural practices that connected printers, booksellers, and their customers, and explores the uncharacteristically modern approaches taken by the city’s preindustrial printers and distributors. Those involved in New York’s book trade imagined for themselves, like their counterparts in other major seaport cities, a robust business that could satisfy the new nation’s desire for print, and many fulfilled their ambition by cultivating networks that crossed regional boundaries, delivering books to the masses.A fresh interpretation of the market economy in early America, An Empire of Print reveals how New York started on the road to becoming the publishing powerhouse it is today.. Through five case studies, Steven Carl Smith examines publishing in New York from the post–Revolutionary War period through the Jacksonian era. If the cultural matrix of printed texts served as the primary legitimating vehicle for politi
Steven Carl Smith is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College.