Wosh, Peter J. <br/><br/>
Spreading the word :  the Bible business in nineteenth-century America / 
Peter J. Wosh. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) :  illustrations. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> A Bible House in the City --  From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers --  Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 --  The Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" --  The Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists --  "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 --  Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 --  Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 --  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.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9. 
<br/><br/> Tells how the American Bible Society, 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501711459 1501711458 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctv1krv67  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>American Bible Society--History--19th century.<br/>American Bible Society<br/>American Bible Society.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible--Publication and distribution--United States.<br/>Bible.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bijbelgenootschappen.<br/>Geschichte 1800-1900.<br/>Economic history.<br/>Social conditions.<br/>RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations<br/>HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social conditions.<br/>United States--Economic conditions.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV2370.A7  / W674 1994eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>267/.13/0973