TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wosh,Peter J.
TI  - Spreading the word: the Bible business in nineteenth-century America 
SN  - 9781501711459
AV  - BV2370.A7 W674 1994eb
U1  - 267/.13/0973 22
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - American Bible Society
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - gnd
KW  - fast
KW  - Bible
KW  - Publication and distribution
KW  - United States
KW  - Bijbelgenootschappen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Geschichte 1800-1900
KW  - swd
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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