Books Between Europe and the Americas : Connections and Communities, 1620-1860 (Hardcover)

Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction; L.Howsam & J.Raven Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: An Early History of Transatlantic Print; C.Armstrong Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus; J.Mylander Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic; P.Whitman Hunter Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancient Regime; F.Melancon Bookmen, Naturalists, and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730-60; N.Wrightson The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection; J.D.Goodfriend Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800; J.Raven 'A Small Cargoe for Tryal': Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century; M.O'Connor From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel; S.G.T.Vasconcelos 'Learning from Abroad?': Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America; E.R.Vera Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840-60; A.Fyfe 'The Power of Steam': Antislavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844-60; R.J.Scholnick Conclusion; L.Howsam & J.Raven