Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers and peddling
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Hawkers & Walkers in Early America
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers and peddling
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Hawkers & Walkers in Early America
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Strolling peddlers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, players and others from the beginning to the Civil War.
The First Americans, 1607-1690
Author: Thomas Jefferson WertenbakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"Critical essay on authorities": pages 317-338.
The History of the Book in the West: 1800–1914
Author: Stephen ColcloughPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351888196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
This collection of published papers on the development of the publishing cycle from author to reader includes work by many of the leading authorities on the history of the book in the nineteenth century, including James Barnes, Simon Eliot, Kate Flint, Elizabeth McHenry, Robert Patten, David Vincent and Ronald Zboray. It contains examples of different approaches, reflecting the fact that scholars come from a variety of disciplinary traditions, such as bibliography, typography, literary studies, library studies and the history of science. The introduction provides an overview of both the historical context and recent work on the subject. The volume is divided into five sections: National Publishing Structures in America, France, and Russia; International Trade; Publishing Practices; Distribution; Reading. The collection includes work in the tradition of French book history which has focussed on the systems and structures of the publishing industry and Anglo-American book history characterised by detailed analyses of the publication of a specific title or the practices of an individual reader.
The Booklist
Author: Forum and Column Review
Author: Waste and Want
Author: Susan StrasserPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466872284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life--throwing things out--and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture--the trash it produces--and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change--the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale. Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
The Forum
Author: The Consequences of Cotton in Antebellum America
Author: William J. PhalenPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476614903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that "without cotton, you have no modern industry." Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brought wealth, power and prosperity to both America and Europe. Giant industries in the northern U.S., extensive shipping networks up and down the Atlantic Coast and to Europe, new inventions and revised applications of old machines--all sprang from the success of King Cotton. This thoughtful study traces the impact of southern cotton on most of the important facets of life in antebellum America, including employment, international relations, agriculture, shipping, the U.S. economy, Native American relations, and the subjugation of humans. This one plant fashioned the way of life of the South and profoundly affected the destiny of the entire American people.