A History of the Book in America: Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940

by Janice A. Radway and Carl F. Kaestle

Book Overview

In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even contradictory consequences of these changes in the production, circulation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807831867
• ISBN13: 9780807831861
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"