History of the Book

AAS draws not only on its traditional resources as a center of bibliographical research and as a matchless repository of early American printed materials, but also on recent intellectual currents that look at the history of books and other printed objects in their full economic, social, and cultural context.

	London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811
	Frances Burney's Cecilia: A Publishing History
	Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers
	Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America
	The Form of News: A History
	Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814
	Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century
	Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America
	American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869
	Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776–1830

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