Republic in Print - Print Culture in the Age of U.s. Nation Building, 1770-1870

Klappentext In "The Republic in Print!" Trish Loughran challenges a dominant narrative about nationalism: the idea that print culture produces nations. Focusing on the years between 1770 and 1870! Loughran develops two richly detailed and provocative arguments. First she argues that it was the lack of national infrastructure (rather than a tightly connected print network) that enabled the nation to be imagined between 1776 and 1790. She then describes how the increasingly connected book market of the 1830s! 1840s! and 1850s worked to exacerbate regional differences in ways that contributed to secession and civil war. Drawing on a range of literary! historical! and archival materials! "The Republic in Print" is a refreshing and original cultural history of the early American nation-state.

Product details

• Authors: Trish Loughran
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2009
• EAN: 9780231139090
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13909-0
• No. of pages: 568
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & social sciences, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Society and Social Sciences, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade