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Printers and Men of Capital - Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (Paperback)
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Printers and Men of Capital - Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (Paperback)
Series: Early American Studies
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An important phase in the American book trade's shift from colonial
craft work to nineteenth-century big business took place in the
early national period, as printers began to take on the risks of
book publishing by creating and serving new markets. The focus of
Printers and Men of Capital is a group of late eighteenth-century
printers in Philadelphia who came of age during the years of the
Revolution. While the new nation was being formed and defined,
these men were seeking to build a publishing industry and establish
themselves in their trade. In the 1780s and 1790s, men like
Benjamin Franklin Bache and William Duane evolved from printing
craftsmen to activist newspaper publishers. Other printers,
including Mathew Carey, Thomas Dobson, and William Woodward, turned
their sights on book publishing. Rosalind Remer focuses on the
risk-taking strategies of these latter entrepreneurs and on the
younger firms that learned from them. She shows how they combined
many traditional eighteenth-century forms of business organization
with newer methods of financing, sales, and distribution. Making
use of the publishers' business records and correspondence, as well
as the books they produced, Printers and Men of Capital makes a
genuine contribution to our understanding of the development of a
domestic economy and culture.
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