Organizing Women

Christine Pawley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever be... Lees meer

Public in Name Only

Brenda Mitchell-Powell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Library History Round Table Reads Selection, March 2024 Alexandria Historical Society Special Merit Award, 2023 When Alexandria, Virginia's first publ... Lees meer

What Middletown Read

Frank Felsenstein, James J Connolly

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• The discovery of a large cache of circulation records from the Muncie, Indiana, Public Library in 2003 offers unprecedented detail about American read... Lees meer

The Art of Prestige

Amy Clements, Amy Root Clements

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In the American book trade, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and its inimitable logo featuring a borzoi wolfhound have come to signify the pinnacle of prestigio... Lees meer

Books, Maps, and Politics

Carl Ostrowski

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Delving into the origins and development of the Library of Congress, this volume ranges from the first attempt to establish a national legislative lib... Lees meer

Creating a World on Paper

Sue Rainey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Harry Fenn was one of the most skilled and successful illustrators in the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a time when illu... Lees meer

Pressing the Fight

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Although often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas. In official pronouncemen... Lees meer

Thinking Outside the Book

Augusta Rohrbach

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In Thinking Outside the Book, Augusta Rohrbach works through the increasing convergences between digital humanities and literary studies to explore th... Lees meer

What a Book Can Do

Priscilla Coit Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In 1962 the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring sparked widespread public debate on the issue of pesticide abuse and environmental degradatio... Lees meer

Illuminating Letters

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• What do we read when we read a text? The author's words, of course, but is that all? The prevailing publishing ethic has insisted that typography-the ... Lees meer

What Adolescents Ought to Know

Jennifer Burek Pierce

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In 1901, Dr. Alfred Fournier committed an act both simple and revolutionary: he wrote For Our Sons, When They Turn 18, a sexual and reproductive healt... Lees meer

Books for Idle Hours

Donna Harrington-Lueker

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print cu... Lees meer

Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America

E Jennifer Monaghan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to vibrant life the process of learning to r... Lees meer

James Laughlin, New Directions Press, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound

Greg Barnhisel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Although James Laughlin (1914-1997) came from one of Pittsburgh's leading steel-making families, his passions were literary rather than industrial--he... Lees meer

Making Meaning

D McKenzie, D F McKenzie

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• The greatest bibliographer of our time, was how historian Robert Darnton described D. F. McKenzie. Yet until now many of McKenzie's major essays, scat... Lees meer

American Architects and Their Books to 1848

James F. O'Gorman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Since the Renaissance, architects have been authors and architecture has been the subject of publications. Architectural forms and theories are spread... Lees meer

American Architects and Their Books, 1840-1915

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Since the Renaissance, architects have been authors and architecture has been the subject of publications. Architectural forms and theories are spread... Lees meer

Placing Papers

Amy Hildreth Chen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in re... Lees meer

Faraway Women and the "Atlantic Monthly"

Cathryn Halverson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Winner of the 2020 Thomas J. Lyon Award from the Western Literature Association In the first decades of the twentieth century, famed Atlantic Monthly ... Lees meer

The Translations of Nebrija

Byron Ellsworth Hamann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• In 1495, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Spanish-to-Latin dictionary that became a best seller. Over the next century it was revis... Lees meer

Agent of Change

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultu... Lees meer

Taking Books to the World

Amanda Laugesen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• Franklin Publications, or Franklin Book Programs, was started in 1952 as a form of cultural diplomacy. Until it folded in the 1970s, Franklin translat... Lees meer

The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Jonathan Senchyne

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• The true scale of paper production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participatin... Lees meer

Book Anatomy

Amy Gore

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
• From the marginalia of their readers to the social and cultural means of their production, books bear the imprint of our humanity. Embodying the marks... Lees meer