{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-book-in-america-volume-4-print-in-motion-the-expansion-of-publishing-and-reading-in-the-united-states-1880-1940-9781469621623","title":"A History of the Book in America: Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of \u003ci\u003eA History of the Book in America\u003c\/i\u003e traces the complex, even contradictory consequences of these changes in the production, circulation, and use of print.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors to this volume explain that although mass production encouraged consolidation and standardization, readers increasingly adapted print to serve their own purposes, allowing for increased diversity in the midst of concentration and integration. Considering the book in larger social and cultural networks, essays address the rise of consumer culture, the extension of literacy and reading through schooling, the expansion of secondary and postsecondary education and the growth of the textbook industry, the growing influence of the professions and their dependence on print culture, and the history of relevant technology. As the essays here attest, the expansion of print culture between 1880 and 1940 enabled it to become part of Americans' everyday business, social, political, and religious lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003eMegan Benton, Pacific Lutheran University\u003cbr\u003ePaul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003cbr\u003eUna M. Cadegan, University of Dayton\u003cbr\u003ePhyllis Dain, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eJames P. Danky, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003cbr\u003eEllen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University\u003cbr\u003ePeter Jaszi, American University\u003cbr\u003eCarl F. Kaestle, Brown University\u003cbr\u003eNicolás Kanellos, University of Houston\u003cbr\u003eRichard L. Kaplan, ABC-Clio Publishing\u003cbr\u003eMarcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Long, Rice University\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth McHenry, New York University\u003cbr\u003eSally M. Miller, University of the Pacific\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ohmann, Wesleyan University\u003cbr\u003eJanice A. Radway, Duke University\u003cbr\u003eJoan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester\u003cbr\u003eJonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University\u003cbr\u003eCharles A. Seavey, University of Missouri, Columbia\u003cbr\u003eMichael Schudson, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Vance Trollinger Jr., University of Dayton\u003cbr\u003eRichard L. Venezky (1938-2004)\u003cbr\u003eJames L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State University\u003cbr\u003eWayne A. Wiegand, Florida State University\u003cbr\u003eMichael Winship, University of Texas at Austin\u003cbr\u003eMartha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl F. Kaestle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469621623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl F. Kaestle is University Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education, History, and Public Policy at Brown University. He is author or editor of six books, including \u003ci\u003eLiteracy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880\u003c\/i\u003e. Janice A. Radway is professor of literature at Duke University. She is author or editor of four books, including \u003ci\u003eReading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire\u003c\/i\u003e (both from the University of North Carolina Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115612168307,"sku":"9781469621623","price":82.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ab0ab3d3-c600-4c2a-a614-8cc234b9a5c3.jpg?v=1781787301","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/a-history-of-the-book-in-america-volume-4-print-in-motion-the-expansion-of-publishing-and-reading-in-the-united-states-1880-1940-9781469621623","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}