Books between Europe and the Americas : connections and communities, 1620-1860 /
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. |
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| Description: | xii, 317 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8403263 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: An Early History of Transatlantic Print
- 3. Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus
- 4. Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic
- 5. Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancien Regime
- 6. Bookmen, Naturalists and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730-60
- 7. The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection
- 8. Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800
- 9. 'A Small Cargoe for Tryal': Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century
- 10. From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel
- 11. 'Learning from Abroad?': Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America
- 12. Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840-60
- 13. 'The Power of Steam': Anti-slavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844-60
- Index
