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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter J Wosh |
| ISBN: | 0801429285 9780801429286 |
| OCLC Number: | 29466230 |
| Description: | xii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Peter J. Wosh. |
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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.
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- American Bible Society -- History -- 19th century.
- Bible -- Publishing -- United States.
- United States -- Social conditions.
- United States -- Economic conditions.
- Bijbelgenootschappen.
- Amerikanische Bibelgesellschaft
- Geschichte 1800-1900.
- Christianity -- Organisations
- United States

