A History of the Book in America, Volume 1

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World

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Edited by David D. Hall and Hugh Amory

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published January 2000, 688 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521482569

Volume 1 of The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World 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 thatdifferentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a "culture of the Word" to the culture of republicanism. The volume also describes nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship,orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literacy to Native Americans and African Americans. (A History of the Book in America is a five-volume, interdisciplinary series that offers a collborative history of the book in American culture from the earliest days of European settlement to the present.)

Contributors: David D. Hall, Hugh Amory, John Bidwell, James Raven, James N. Green, Calhoun Winton, A. Gregg Roeber, Charles E. Clark, Richard D. Brown, Elizabeth Carroll Reillyh, Ross W. Beales, E. Jennifer Monaghan, David Shields

Contents

Introduction, Some Contexts and Questions: The Europeans' Encounter with the Native Americans, David D. Hall; 1. Re-inventing the Colonial Book, Hugh Amory; 2. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century, David D. Hall; 3. Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713, Hugh Amory; 4. Readers and Writers in Seventeenth Century New England, David D. Hall; 5. The Atlantic World, PART 1. THE ATLANTIC ECONOMY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, David D. Hall, PART 2. PRINTERS' SUPPLIES AND CAPITALIZATION, John Bidwell, PART 3. THE IMPORTATION OF BOOKS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, James Raven, NOTE IMPORTS AND DOMESTIC PRODUCTION, Hugh Amory; 6. The Book Trade in the Middle Colonies, 1680-1720, James N. Green; 7. The Southern Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century, Calhoun Winton; 8. The Book Trade in the Middle Colonies in the Age of Franklin, James N. Green, PART 2. THE GERMAN-AND-DUTCH -LANGUAGE BOOKS AND PRINTING, A. Gregg Roeber; 9. The New England Book Trade. 1713-1790, Hugh Amory; 10. Periodicals and Politics, PART 1. EARLY AMERICAN JOURNALISM: NEWS AND OPINION IN THE POPULAR PRESS, Charles E. Clark, PART 2. SHIFTING FREEDOMS OF THE PRESS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Richard D. Brown; 11. Practices of Reading, INTRODUCTION, David D. Hall, 1. LITERACY AND SCHOOLBOOKS, Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan, 2. CUSTOMERS AND THE MARKETPLACE FOR BOOKS, Elizabeth Carroll Reilly and David D. Hall; 12. Learned Culture in the Eighteenth Century, David D. Hall; 13. Literary Culture in the Eighteenth Century, David Shields