132nd Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2018): Peddling Print in 19th-Century America: Subscription Publishing as a Business Model

Peddling Print in 19th-Century America: Subscription Publishing as a Business Model

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing 2
Business History Conference 2

Friday, January 5, 2018: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Thurgood Marshall East (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)

Chair:

Jessica K. Burch, University of Utah

Papers:

Subscribers, Lithographers, and “Chiefs”: Reading Mckenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America in the Plantation South, 1836–44
Julia Grummitt, Princeton University

Agency Revisited: Business, Class, and Gender in the 19th-Century Agency Economy
Natalie Marine-Street, Stanford University

Agents, Fraudsters, Subscribers, and Borrowers: Buying and Selling Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1830s–70s
Amy Sopcak-Joseph, University of Connecticut at Storrs

The Marketplace of Ideas: The Business of Knowing in 19th-Century America
Travis E. Ross, Beinecke Library, Yale University

Comment:

Jessica K. Burch, University of Utah

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