The Books of a New Nation – United States Government Publications, 1774–1814
Autor J. H. Powellen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 ian 1957
In this volume collectors will find many firsts in public documents, bibliographers will discover unknown chapters in the history of printing in America, and historians will be challenged by the new points of view government publications suggest for interpreting national history.
Lecture I describes the printing of the Continental Congress before Independence, 1774-1176. Lecture II deals with official publications during the Revolution, 1776-1787, the printing history of the Federal Convention of 1787, and public issues of the new government during its sojourn in New York and Philadelphia, 1789-1800. Lecture III describes publication problems in the new capital, Washington City, the printing contracts and contractors, the complex process of drafting and emitting the laws for a free people to know and understand. Books--even statutes, reports, debates, such books as a government makes--are bits of human history, each with a story of its own. As Dr. Powell makes clear in these lectures, which bring to light one of the largest, most important, but most neglected subjects in American Studies, the charm of any book comes partly from the men behind it, in this case men new to American history but bound to become familiar as the field opened up by these lectures is more thoroughly explored: Adolphus Washington Greely, the Polar explorer; Samuel A. Otis, the elegant Secretary of the Senate; Roger Chew Weightman, the boy printer in Washington; Clerk Beckley of the House whom the playing fields of Eton had prepared for Jeffersonian party battles; and the printers, the politicians, the civil and military servants of the government as it grew from small beginnings to what Hamilton finally described as--majestic, efficient, and operative of great things.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781512805826
ISBN-10: 1512805823
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Reprint 2016
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10: 1512805823
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Reprint 2016
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Notă biografică
J. H. Powell was Randolph Adams Memorial Lecturer at the University of Michigan, and received the A. S. W Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the author of Richard Rush, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.