TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wosh,Peter J.
TI  - Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America 
SN  - 9781501711459
U1  - 267/.13/0973 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711459
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501711459
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501711459/original
ER  -