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The Business of Books
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In 1450 very few English men or women were personally familiar with a book; by 1850, the great majority of people daily encountered books, magazines, or newspap
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Legal Publishing in Antebellum America
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Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part
Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries
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Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early Amer