An Empire of Print : : The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic / / Steven Carl Smith.

Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Penn State Series in the History of the Book ; 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Citing Newspapers
  • Introduction: The Pertinent Details
  • 1 Samuel Loudon and the Building of the Empire State in Print
  • 2 William Gordon, Print Culture, and the Politics of History
  • 3 John Ward Fenno's Bookshop Politics
  • 4 Literary Fairs and National Ambitions
  • 5 Evert Duyckinck and the National Book Trade
  • Afterword: Print and Memory in an Age of Change
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index