Edward J. Larson

James Madison

Michael P. Winship

Michael Winship

Presents the notes kept by James Madison at the Constitutional Convention and includes background information on all delegates and an overview of the times.

A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison

The Constitutional Convention

This is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain, addressed through examination of the unusually rich archives of a unique publishing firm. Boston-based Ticknor and Fields, one of the pre-eminent literary publishers of its time, enjoyed close links with Britain, and also developed new production, distribution, and marketing skills as the settlement of North America pushed ever further west. Michael Winship has studied the firm's business records and publications in detail: he reveals what Ticknor and Fields published, its costs of production, the ways it marketed and distributed its books, and the profits it made. Winship goes on to explore the implications of the firm's work for the book trade in general, and to show how an investigation of Ticknor and Fields enriches our understanding of the literary and cultural history of Britain and North America.

The Business of Ticknor and Fields

American Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth Century

American Antiquarian Society

Harriet Beecher Stowe, who had no idea of the success that this book would achieve, also lacked experience with book publishers. Right from its publication in book form, sales took off. Through the numerous adaptations, condensations, responses, and other spin-offs, the book brought the issue of slavery before the reading public as nothing else had. But success led to strain and a break with (Stowe?s) publisher John P. Jewett; then, through a chance meeting, to James T. Fields, and ultimately to Houghton Mifflin, the book?s publisher when the copyright expired in 1893. This work explores how, over time, the claim that it was ?The Greatest Book of Its Kind? came to be deserved.

A Publishing History of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'

The Greatest Book of Its Kind

This volume surveys the history of television from the pioneering days of the 1930s, through the Golden Age of the 1950s, to the present

Television

David D. Hall

Scott E. Casper

Jeffrey D. Groves

Stephen W. Nissenbaum

Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers. Chapters trace the ascent of the "industrial book--a manufactured product arising from the gradual adoption of new printing, binding, and illustration technologies and encompassing the profusion of nineteenth-century printed materials--which relied on nationwide networks of financing, transportation, and communication. In tandem with increasing educational opportunities and rising literacy rates, the industrial book encouraged new sites of reading; gave voice to diverse communities of interest through periodicals, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed forms; and played a vital role in the development of American culture. Contributors: Susan Belasco, University of Nebraska Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University Kenneth E. Carpenter, Newton Center, Massachusetts Scott E. Casper, University of Nevada, Reno Jeannine Marie DeLombard, University of Toronto Ann Fabian, Rutgers University Jeffrey D. Groves, Harvey Mudd College Paul C. Gutjahr, Indiana University David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School David M. Henkin, University of California, Berkeley Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Eric Lupfer, Humanities Texas Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers University John Nerone, University of Illinois Stephen W. Nissenbaum, University of Massachusetts Lloyd Pratt, Michigan State University Barbara Sicherman, Trinity College Louise Stevenson, Franklin & Marshall College Amy M. Thomas, Montana State University Tamara Plakins Thornton, State University of New York, Buffalo Susan S. Williams, Ohio State University Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin

Michael Winship

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