Spreading the word : the Bible business in nineteenth-century America / Peter J. Wosh.

By:

Wosh, Peter J

Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994Description: 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781501711459
1501711458

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spreading the word.DDC classification:

267/.13/0973 22

LOC classification:

BV2370.A7 W674 1994eb

Other classification:

11.49

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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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.