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Author | : Michael H. Hoeflich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2005-06 |
Genre | : Book auctions |
ISBN | : 9781929545261 |
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Traditional legal history has been doctrinal history interested in the content of books rather than in how such doctrines were made known to lawyers and the public. Law books got into circulation through booksellers and auctions of new and unsold stock and the libraries of lawyers. A survey of auction catalogues suggests their value in helping to reconstruct the intellectual milieu of the antebellum Bar.
Author | : M. H. Hoeflich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139488058 |
Download Legal Publishing in Antebellum America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part legal history, part history of information diffusion, M. H. Hoeflich shows how various developments in printing and bookbinding, the introduction of railroads, and the expansion of mail service contributed to the growth of the industry from an essentially local industry to a national industry. Furthermore, the book ties the spread of a particular approach to law, that is, the 'scientific approach', championed by Northeastern American jurists to the growth of law publishing and law book selling and shows that the two were critically intertwined.
Author | : Samuel Livermore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1811 |
Genre | : Agency (Law) |
ISBN | : |
Download A Treatise on the Law Relative to Principals, Agents, Factors, Auctioneers, and Brokers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This was the first American treatise on the law relating to agency, auctions and brokers. A review cited in Marvin's Legal Bibliography (1847) says this treatise "treats the subject in a learned and perspicuous manner, drawing illustrations from the Civil, as well as the Common Law." Livermore [1786-1833] was an attorney who practiced in New Orleans. Marvin says he was "one of the most learned and eminent jurists that this country has produced.
Author | : Kevin L. Cope |
Publisher | : AMS Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780404622312 |
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Author | : Joseph BATEMAN |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download A Practical Treatise on the Law of Auctions ... First American edition with notes and laws of the several states. By Henry N. Sheldon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Author | : Ronald J. Zboray |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1993-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195344901 |
Download A Fictive People Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometimes defining the limits of the antebellum reading public. A Fictive People explodes two notions that are commonplace in cultural histories of the nineteenth century: first, that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and, second, that there was a body of nineteenth-century literature that reflected a "nation of readers." Zboray shows that the output of the press was so diverse and the public so indiscriminate in what it would read that we must rethink these conclusions. The essential elements for the rise of publishing turn out not to be the usual suspects of rising literacy and increased schooling. Zboray turns our attention to the railroad as well as private letter writing to see the creation of a national taste for literature. He points out the ambiguous role of the nineteenth-century school in encouraging reading and convincingly demonstrates that we must look more deeply to see why the nation turned to literature. He uses such data as sales figures and library borrowing to reveal that women read as widely as men and that the regional breakdown of sales focused the power of print.
Author | : Matt Cohen |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1609384768 |
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The American ninteenth century witnessed a media explosion unprecedented in human history, and Walt Whitman's poetry reveled in the potentials of his time: "See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press, " he wrote. "See, the electric telegraph, stretching across the Continent, from the Western Sea to Manhattan." Still, as the budding poet learned, books neither sell themselves nor move themselves: without an efficient set of connections to get books to readers, the democratic, media-saturated future that Whitman imagined would have remained warehoused. Whitman's works sometimes ran through the "many-cylinder'd steam printing-press" and were carried in bulk on "the strong and quick locomotive." Yet during his career, his publications did not follow a progressive path toward mass production and distribution. Whitman's Drift asks how the many options for distributing books and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and readers read. Studying nineteenth-century literature and how it circulated can help us understand not just how to read Whitman's works and times, but how to understand what is happening to our imaginations now, in the midst of the twenty-first century media explosion. -- from back cover.
Author | : Paul R. Begley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Download African American Genealogical Research Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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