03815cam a2200709Ki 4500 on1037272683 OCoLC 20200709060614.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 180524s1994 nyua ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T OCLCO YDX JSTOR 9781501711459 (electronic bk.) 1501711458 (electronic bk.) 0801429285 9780801429286 1814696 (N$T) (OCoLC)1037272683 22573/ctv1krv67 JSTOR n-us--- BV2370.A7 W674 1994eb REL 016000 bisacsh HIS 036040 bisacsh BUS 077000 bisacsh REL 033000 bisacsh 267/.13/0973 22 11.49 bcl MAIN Wosh, Peter J. Spreading the word : the Bible business in nineteenth-century America / Peter J. Wosh. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994. 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 1. A Bible House in the City -- 2. From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers -- 3. Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 -- 4. The Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" -- 5. The Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists -- 6. "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 -- 8. Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- 9. 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. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 American Bible Society History 19th century. Bible Publication and distribution United States. American Bible Society gnd American Bible Society. fast (OCoLC)fst00544330 Bible. fast (OCoLC)fst01356024 United States Social conditions. United States Economic conditions. Bijbelgenootschappen. gtt Geschichte 1800-1900. swd Economic history. fast (OCoLC)fst00901974 Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01919811 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations bisacsh HISTORY / United States / 19th Century bisacsh History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Electronic books. Print version: Wosh, Peter J. Spreading the word. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994 0801429285 (DLC) 93043880 (OCoLC)29466230 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1814696 YBP Library Services YANK 15443385 EBSCOhost EBSC 1814696 92 N$T 57601 57601