xvii, 669 p. : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-621) and index

A framework for the history of publishing and reading in the United States, 1880-1940 / Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway -- Seeing the sites : readers, publishers, and local print cultures in 1880 / Carl F. Kaestle -- The rise of a national book trade system in the United States / Michael Winship -- The expansion of the national book trade system / James L.W. West III -- Copyright in transition / Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee -- Diverging paths : books and magazines in the transition to corporate capitalism / Richard Ohmann -- From partisanship to professionalism : the transformation of the daily press / Richard L. Kaplan -- Persistence of vision : partisan journalism in the mainstream press / Michael Schudson -- Unruly servants : machines, modernity, and the printed page / Megan Benton -- Ambivalent advertising : books, prestige, and the circulation of publicity / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Learned and literary print cultures in an age of professionalization and diversification / Janice A. Radway -- Crafting a communications infrastructure : scientific and technical publishing in the United States / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette -- The government as publisher / Charles A. Seavey with Caroline F. Sloat -- Gilded-age consensus, repressive campaigns, and gradual liberalization : the shifting rhythms of book censorship / Paul S. Boyer -- Distinctive media : the European ethnic press in the United States / Sally M. Miller -- Exiles, immigrants, and natives : Hispanic print culture in what became the mainland of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos -- Reading, writing, and resisting : African American print culture / James P. Danky -- An outpouring of "faithful" words : Protestant publishing in the United States / William Vance Trollinger Jr. -- Two ambitious goals : American Jewish publishing in the United States / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Running the ancient ark by steam : Catholic publishing / Una M. Cadegan -- From McGuffey to Dick and Jane : reading textbooks / Richard L. Venezky with Carl F. Kaestle -- The American public library : construction of a community reading institution / Wayne A. Wiegand -- The great libraries / Phyllis Dain -- Aflame with culture : reading and social mission in the nineteenth-century white women's literary club movement / Elizabeth Long -- Reading and race pride : the literary activism of Black clubwomen / Elizabeth McHenry -- Making meaning : analysis and affect in the study and practice of reading / Joan Shelley Rubin

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