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| Tables, Maps, Illustrations | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Reading and the Ironies of Technological Innovation | 3 |
| 2 | The Publisher's Market | 17 |
| 3 | The Book Peddler and Literary Dissemination | 37 |
| 4 | The Transportation Revolution and Book Distribution | 55 |
| 5 | The Railroad, the Community, and the Book | 69 |
| 6 | Family, Church, and Academy | 83 |
| 7 | The Common School and Other Institutions | 96 |
| 8 | The Letter and the Reading Public | 110 |
| 9 | Numeracy, the News, and Self-culture | 122 |
| 10 | The Interior Organization of a Bookstore | 136 |
| 11 | Gender and Boundlessness in Reading Patterns | 156 |
| 12 | Time, Space, and Chaos | 180 |
| Appendix 1: Regionalism, Literacy, and Economic Development | 196 | |
| Appendix 2: Categories in the Analytical Catalogue (1850) of the New York Society Library | 202 | |
| Notes | 211 | |
| Works Cited | 269 | |
| Index | 305 |
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reviewed A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public on June 11, 2008 A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public
A largely Marxist/materialist (and at times technodeterminist) account of how and why reading practices changed in the antebellum period
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