the Bible business in nineteenth-century America Wosh, Peter J. creator text bibliography History. Electronic books. nyu 1994 monographic eng 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations. 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. Peter J. Wosh. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- American Bible Society History 19th century Publication and distribution United States American Bible Society American Bible Society. United States Social conditions United States Economic conditions Bijbelgenootschappen Geschichte 1800-1900 Economic history Social conditions United States RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations HISTORY / United States / 19th Century BV2370.A7 W674 1994eb 267/.13/0973 11.49 Wosh, Peter J. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994 (DLC) 93043880 (OCoLC)29466230 9781501711459 1501711458 22573/ctv1krv67 JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1814696 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1814696 N$T 180524 20200709060614.0 on1037272683 eng