Books between Europe and the Americas: Connections and Communities, 1620–1860

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: An Early History of Transatlantic Print....Pages 23-41
Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus....Pages 42-63
Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic....Pages 64-82
Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancien Régime....Pages 83-103
Bookmen, Naturalists and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730–60....Pages 104-127
The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection....Pages 128-156
Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800....Pages 157-186
‘A Small Cargoe for Tryal’: Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century....Pages 187-211
From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel....Pages 212-232
‘Learning from Abroad?’: Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America....Pages 233-256
Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840–60....Pages 257-282
‘The Power of Steam’: Anti-slavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844–60....Pages 283-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-317