An American Bible A history of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880
Gutjahr, Paul C.
An American Bible A history of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 Paul C. Gutjahr - U.S.A. Stanford University Press 1999 - 256tr. Hardcover, illustrations, maps 25cm
This book examines how many different constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace experienced explosive growth. The author shows how these heated battles had profound consequences for many American cultural practices and forms of printed material. By exploring how publishers, clergymen, politicians, educators, and lay persons met the threat that new printed material posed to the dominance of the Bible by changing both its form and its contents, the author reveals the causes and consequences of mutating God's supposedly immutable Word.
9780804734257, 0804734259
Bible -- Publication and distribution
Bible -- History
United States
220.0973 / P324-G98
An American Bible A history of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 Paul C. Gutjahr - U.S.A. Stanford University Press 1999 - 256tr. Hardcover, illustrations, maps 25cm
This book examines how many different constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace experienced explosive growth. The author shows how these heated battles had profound consequences for many American cultural practices and forms of printed material. By exploring how publishers, clergymen, politicians, educators, and lay persons met the threat that new printed material posed to the dominance of the Bible by changing both its form and its contents, the author reveals the causes and consequences of mutating God's supposedly immutable Word.
9780804734257, 0804734259
Bible -- Publication and distribution
Bible -- History
United States
220.0973 / P324-G98