Description: History of the Book in America: Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880
Brief description: Scott E. Casper is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, and author of Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America.
Review Quotes:
"The Industrial Book is a stunning work of compilation and erudition. It succeeds in delineating the cultural, political, social, and economic history of the mid-nineteenth-century book while also capturing the intellectual vitality and innovation that characterizes this increasingly influential field of study." -- Joshua Brown, The Graduate Center, City University of New York