Spreading the Word : : The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America / / 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 te...
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Wosh, Peter J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Spreading the Word : The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America / Peter J. Wosh. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1994 1 online resource (286 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Religious Studies. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711459 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501711459 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501711459/original |
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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 |
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