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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aWosh, Peter J.
245 1 0 _aSpreading the word :
_bthe Bible business in nineteenth-century America /
_cPeter J. Wosh.
264 1 _aIthaca :
_bCornell University Press,
_c1994.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
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338 _aonline resource
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aTells 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.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tA Bible House in the City --
_g2.
_tFrom Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers --
_g3.
_tLocal Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 --
_g4.
_tThe Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" --
_g5.
_tThe Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists --
_g6.
_t"Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 --
_g7.
_tMaking Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 --
_g8.
_tRace, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 --
_g9.
_tBringing System and Order to the Agency: Bible Work in the Levant, 1854-1889 --
_tEpilogue: From "Missionary Basis" to "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
590 _aMaster record variable field(s) change: 072
610 2 0 _aAmerican Bible Society
_xHistory
_y19th century.
630 0 0 _aBible
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_zUnited States.
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651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xEconomic conditions.
650 1 7 _aBijbelgenootschappen.
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650 0 7 _aGeschichte 1800-1900.
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650 7 _aEconomic history.
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650 7 _aSocial conditions.
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651 7 _aUnited States.
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650 7 _aRELIGION / Institutions & Organizations
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650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century
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655 7 _aHistory.
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aWosh, Peter J.
_tSpreading the word.
_dIthaca : Cornell University Press, 1994
_z0801429285
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