Spreading the Word
The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11675682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert P Swierenga (corresponding author), Peter J Wosh (0000-0002-7703-1302) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 548-548 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Early Republic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-1275 • E-ISSN: 1553-0620 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3124145 |
| OpenAlex | W2079130127 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how 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
Economic history · Linguistics · Political science · Word (group theory · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
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The British and Foreign Bible Society in Port Said and the Suez Canal
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2020 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |