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" An American Bible : "
Paul C. Gutjahr.
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BL
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635376
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Gutjahr, Paul C.
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An American Bible : : a history of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 /\ Paul C. Gutjahr.
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1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0585047359 (electronic bk.)
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: 9780585047355 (electronic bk.)
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0804734259
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-252) and index
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| Contents
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1. Production -- 2. Packaging -- 3. Purity -- 4. Pedagogy -- 5. Popularity -- App. 1. An Overview of Bible Production in the United States, 1777-1880 -- App. 2. American Bible Society (ABS) Production and Distribution, 1818-1880 -- App. 3. Prices for the Cheapest Editions of American Bibles in the Nineteenth Century -- App. 4. Survey of Bible Bindings from the American Bible Society (1,238-edition sample) -- App. 5. New Translations of the English Bible in the United States, 1808-1880 -- App. 6. Production of Catholic Bibles in English in the United States, 1790-1880
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"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."--BOOK JACKET
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220/.0973
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BS447.5.U6G88 1999eb
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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