Spreading the word : the Bible business in nineteenth-century America /
Wosh, Peter J.
Spreading the word : the Bible business in nineteenth-century America / Peter J. Wosh. - 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Bible House in the City -- From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers -- Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 -- The Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" -- The Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists -- "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 -- Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- Bringing System and Order to the Agency: Bible Work in the Levant, 1854-1889 -- Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" to "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Tells how the American Bible Society, a modest antebellum reform agency, responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.
9781501711459 1501711458
22573/ctv1krv67 JSTOR
American Bible Society--History--19th century.
American Bible Society
American Bible Society
Bible--Publication and distribution--United States.
Bible--Publication et diffusion--États-Unis.
Bible
1800-1899
RELIGION--Institutions & Organizations.
HISTORY--United States--19th Century.
Economic history
Social conditions
Bijbelgenootschappen.
Geschichte 1800-1900.
United States--Social conditions.
United States--Economic conditions.
États-Unis--Conditions sociales.
États-Unis--Conditions économiques.
United States
History
BV2370.A7 / W674 1994eb
267/.13/0973
Spreading the word : the Bible business in nineteenth-century America / Peter J. Wosh. - 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Bible House in the City -- From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers -- Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 -- The Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" -- The Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists -- "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 -- Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- Bringing System and Order to the Agency: Bible Work in the Levant, 1854-1889 -- Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" to "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Tells how the American Bible Society, a modest antebellum reform agency, responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.
9781501711459 1501711458
22573/ctv1krv67 JSTOR
American Bible Society--History--19th century.
American Bible Society
American Bible Society
Bible--Publication and distribution--United States.
Bible--Publication et diffusion--États-Unis.
Bible
1800-1899
RELIGION--Institutions & Organizations.
HISTORY--United States--19th Century.
Economic history
Social conditions
Bijbelgenootschappen.
Geschichte 1800-1900.
United States--Social conditions.
United States--Economic conditions.
États-Unis--Conditions sociales.
États-Unis--Conditions économiques.
United States
History
BV2370.A7 / W674 1994eb
267/.13/0973