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AN AMERICAN BIBLE: A History of the Good Book in the United States 1777-1880 Hardcover - 1999
by Paul C. Gutjahr
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- Title AN AMERICAN BIBLE: A History of the Good Book in the United States 1777-1880
- Author Paul C. Gutjahr
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 276
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 100399
- ISBN 9780804734257 / 0804734259
- Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 10.37 x 7.37 x 1.04 in (26.34 x 18.72 x 2.64 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-37396
- Dewey Decimal Code 220.097
From the publisher
From the jacket flap
--Jay Fliegelman,
Stanford University
During the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, American publishing experienced unprecedented, exponential growth. An emerging market economy, widespread religious revival, educational reforms, and innovations in print technology worked together to create a culture increasingly formed and framed by the power of print. At the center of this new culture was the Bible, the book that has been called "the best seller" in American publishing history. Yet it is important to realize that the Bible in America was not a simple, uniform entity. First printed in the United States during the American Revolution, the Bible underwent many revisions, translations, and changes in format as different editors and publishers appropriated it to meet a wide range of changing ideological and economic demands.
This book examines how many different constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace experienced explosive growth. The author shows how these heated battles had profound consequences for many American cultural practices and forms of printed material. By exploring how publishers, clergymen, politicians, educators, and lay persons met the threat that new printed material posed to the dominance of the Bible by changing both its form and its contents, the author reveals the causes and consequences of mutating God's supposedly immutable Word.
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- Library Journal, 09/01/1999, Page 198