Legal publishing in antebellum America [electronic resource] / M.H. Hoeflich.
2010
Z480.L44 H64 2010eb
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Title
Legal publishing in antebellum America [electronic resource] / M.H. Hoeflich.
Author
Hoeflich, Michael H.
ISBN
9780521192064
0521192064
0521192064
Publication Details
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 190 p.)
Call Number
Z480.L44 H64 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
070.509/033
Summary
Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part legal history, part history of information diffusion, M. H. Hoeflich shows how various developments in printing and bookbinding, the introduction of railroads, and the expansion of mail service contributed to the growth of the industry from an essentially local industry to a national industry. Furthermore, the book ties the spread of a particular approach to law, that is, the scientific approach, championed by Northeastern American jurists to the growth of law publishing and law book selling and shows that the two were critically intertwined --Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Bookish profession
Birth of the law book trade
Spreading the word : catalogues and cultivation
Bidding for law books
Risk, subscriptions, and status
John Livingston, esq. : law bookseller as cultural entrepreneur
Selling the law in antebellum America.
Birth of the law book trade
Spreading the word : catalogues and cultivation
Bidding for law books
Risk, subscriptions, and status
John Livingston, esq. : law bookseller as cultural entrepreneur
Selling the law in antebellum America.