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- catalog abstract "Tells how the American Bible Society, 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.".
- catalog contributor b5609332.
- catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "1. A Bible House in the City -- 2. From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers -- 3. Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 -- 4. The Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" -- 5. The Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists -- 6. "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 -- 8. Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- 9. Bringing System and Order to the Agency: Bible Work in the Levant, 1854-1889 -- Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" to "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Tells how the American Bible Society, 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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 271 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801429285 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "267/.13/0973 20".
- catalog subject "American Bible Society History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "BV2370.A7 W674 1994".
- catalog subject "Bible Publication and distribution United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. A Bible House in the City -- 2. From Civic Humanitarianism to Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature of the Board of Managers -- 3. Local Particularism and National Interests: Creating the Agency System, 1816-1830 -- 4. The Limits of Consensus in a Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem of Mariners and "Papists" -- 5. The Limits of Consensus in a Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, and Abolitionists -- 6. "Motives of Both Duty and Expediency": Entering the Foreign Field, 1831-1844 -- 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization and the Agency System, 1845-1865 -- 8. Race, War, and Sectionalism: Reconstructing the Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 -- 9. Bringing System and Order to the Agency: Bible Work in the Levant, 1854-1889 -- Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" to "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament.".
- catalog title "Spreading the word : the Bible business in nineteenth-century America / Peter J. Wosh.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".