Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.
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New York, Corresponding Secretary's Papers, Bible House, United States, New Jersey, New England, Roman Catholic, Near East, North Carolina, New Haven, Civil War, Harvard University Press, John Pintard, Mutual Life, Yale University Press, South Carolina, Isaac Bliss, Robert Baird, Historical Essay, Joseph Holdich, Oxford University Press, Ward Stafford, John Brigham, Chants Democratic, Elias Boudinot New!
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New York, Corresponding Secretary's Papers, Bible House, United States, New Jersey, New England, Roman Catholic, Near East, North Carolina, New Haven, Civil War, Harvard University Press, John Pintard, Mutual Life, Yale University Press, South Carolina, Isaac Bliss, Robert Baird, Historical Essay, Joseph Holdich, Oxford University Press, Ward Stafford, John Brigham, Chants Democratic, Elias Boudinot New!
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- The New Metropolis by Edward K. Spann on 5 pages
- Revivalism & Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War by Professor Timothy L. Smith on 5 pages
- Victorian America by Daniel W. Howe on 5 pages
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. on 4 pages
- New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time by Thomas Bender on 4 pages
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- Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America (Religion in America) by David Paul Nord on 4 pages
- In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible (Religion in America) by Peter J. Thuesen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina (Religion in the South) by Walter H. Conser Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Religion and Cultural Studies. by Susan L. Mizruchi in Back Matter
- An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 by Paul Gutjahr in Back Matter
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