Books between Europe and the Americas de L. Howsam

Books between Europe and the Americas: Connections and Communities, 1620-1860

L. Howsam

J. Raven

A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south.

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Express

Paperback (1)

379^.04 lei 6-8 săpt.

Palgrave Macmillan UK – 2011

379^.04 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

385^.61 lei 6-8 săpt.

Palgrave Macmillan UK – 25 mai 2011

385^.61 lei 6-8 săpt.

Cuprins

Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction; L.Howsam & J.Raven Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: An Early History of Transatlantic Print; C.Armstrong Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus; J.Mylander Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic; P.Whitman Hunter Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancient Régime; F.Melançon Bookmen, Naturalists, and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730-60; N.Wrightson The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection; J.D.Goodfriend Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800; J.Raven 'A Small Cargoe for Tryal': Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century; M.O'Connor From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel; S.G.T.Vasconcelos 'Learning from Abroad?': Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America; E.R.Vera Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840-60; A.Fyfe 'The Power of Steam': Antislavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844-60; R.J.Scholnick Conclusion; L.Howsam & J.Raven

Notă biografică

CATHERINE ARMSTRONG Lecturer in American History, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK AILEEN FYFE Lecturer in History, the National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of IrelandJOYCE D. GOODFRIEND Professor of History at the University of Denver, USA PHYLIS WHITMAN HUNTER Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA FRANÇOIS MELANÇON Lecturer in History at the Université of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada JENNIFER MYLANDER Assistant Professor of English in The College of Humanities, San Francisco State University, USA MICHAEL O'CONNOR Research Assistant for the Ireland-JSTOR project, Queen's University, Belfast, UK ROBERT J. SCHOLNICK Professor of English and American Studies, the College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA SANDRA GUARDINI T. VASCONCELOS Full Professor of English Literature, the University of São Paulo, Brazil EUGENIA ROLDÁN VERA Professor, Department of Educational Research, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico City NICHOLAS WRIGHTSON Doctoral Graduate, Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK