Books between Europe and the Americas

Connections and Communities, 1620-1860

L. Howsam, J. Raven, L. Howsam, J. Raven

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780230305090
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: An Early History of Transatlantic Print
• 3 Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus
• 4 Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic
• 5 Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancien Régime
• 6 Bookmen, Naturalists and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730–60
• 7 The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection
• 8 Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800
• 9 ‘A Small Cargoe for Tryal’: Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century
• 10 From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel
• 11 ‘Learning from Abroad?’: Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America
• 12 Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840–60
• 13 ‘The Power of Steam’: Anti-slavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844–60
• Index