Spreading the Word : : The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America / / Peter J. Wosh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wosh, Peter J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List Of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. A Bible House In The City --; 2. From Civic Humanitarianism To Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature Of The Board Of Managers --; 3. Local Particularism And National Interests: Creating The Agency System, 1816-1830 --; 4. The Limits Of Consensus In A Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem Of Mariners And "Papists" --; 5. The Limits Of Consensus In A Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, And Abolitionists --; 6. "Motives Of Both Duty And Expediency": Entering The Foreign Field, 1831-1844 --; 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization And The Agency System, 1845-1865 --; 8. Race, War, And Sectionalism: Reconstructing The Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 --; 9. Bringing System And Order To The Agency: Bible Work In The Levant, 1854-1889 --; Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" To "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501711459; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501711459
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter J. Wosh.

Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.