Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835

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Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1992 - Počet stran: 538
Gilmore (history, Stockton State College) is concerned with the half century following independence, during which rural New England changed from a traditional agricultural region into a commercialized one. He examines the links among cultural, social, and economic aspects of this transformation, an ingredient of which was an ideological commitment to reading and learning. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Introduction
1
Continuity
17
The Study Area and the Scale of Generalization 27
27
Reading Instruction in Rural New England
34
Toward the Intellectual Emancipation
42
The Commercialization of Rural Life
53
Conclusions 110
110
Trends in the Acquisition of Elementary Literacy
118
Upper Valley Vehicles of Print Communicatons
189
Popular Sellers and the Life Cycle 217
217
The Material Anchors
225
Windsor District Society and the American Northeast
240
Wealth and Holdings of Printed Matter 247
247
Kinds of Works Retained
264
Windsor District and Rural America
273
Human Habitats
285

Elementary LiteracyPace and Motives 127
127
The Human Habitats of Rural New England
135
Description of the Human Habitats
141
History of the Network of Human Habitats
148
The Communication System
157
The Circulation System for Print Culture
163
Zones of Access to Print Culture
178
Print Culture and Evidence for Other Forms
377
The Upper Valley Occupational System
396
Inventories Spine Titles and Family Libraries
402
Abbreviations 481
481
Index 515
515
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