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Spreading the Word : The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America / Peter J. Wosh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501711459
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 267/.13/0973
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Bible House In The City -- 2. From Civic Humanitarianism To Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature Of The Board Of Managers -- 3. Local Particularism And National Interests: Creating The Agency System, 1816-1830 -- 4. The Limits Of Consensus In A Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem Of Mariners And "Papists" -- 5. The Limits Of Consensus In A Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, And Abolitionists -- 6. "Motives Of Both Duty And Expediency": Entering The Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization And The Agency System, 1845-1865 -- 8. Race, War, And Sectionalism: Reconstructing The Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- 9. 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 -- Index
Summary: Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Bible House In The City -- 2. From Civic Humanitarianism To Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature Of The Board Of Managers -- 3. Local Particularism And National Interests: Creating The Agency System, 1816-1830 -- 4. The Limits Of Consensus In A Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem Of Mariners And "Papists" -- 5. The Limits Of Consensus In A Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, And Abolitionists -- 6. "Motives Of Both Duty And Expediency": Entering The Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization And The Agency System, 1845-1865 -- 8. Race, War, And Sectionalism: Reconstructing The Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- 9. 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 -- Index

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Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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