Books between Europe and the Americas

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Leslie Howsam, James Raven

   Pages 1-22

3. Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: An Early History of Transatlantic Print

   • Catherine Armstrong

   Pages 23-41

4. Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus

   • Jennifer Mylander

   Pages 42-63

5. Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic

   • Phyllis Whitman Hunter

   Pages 64-82

6. Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancien Régime

   • François Melançon

   Pages 83-103

7. Bookmen, Naturalists and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730–60

   • Nicholas Wrightson

   Pages 104-127

8. The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection

   • Joyce D. Goodfriend

   Pages 128-156

9. Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800

   • James Raven

   Pages 157-186

10. ‘A Small Cargoe for Tryal’: Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century

    • Michael O’Connor

    Pages 187-211

11. From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel

    • Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos

    Pages 212-232

12. ‘Learning from Abroad?’: Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America

    • Eugenia Roldán Vera

    Pages 233-256

13. Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840–60

    • Aileen Fyfe

    Pages 257-282

14. ‘The Power of Steam’: Anti-slavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844–60

    • Robert J. Scholnick

    Pages 283-306

15. Back Matter

    Pages 307-317

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A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south.

• Britain
• Europe
• history
• New York City
• reform
• trade
• USA

• University of Windsor, Canada

  Leslie Howsam

• University of Essex, UK

  James Raven

CATHERINE ARMSTRONG Lecturer in American History, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK AILEEN FYFE Lecturer in History, the National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland JOYCE D. GOODFRIEND Professor of History at the University of Denver, USA PHYLIS WHITMAN HUNTER Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA FRANÇOIS MELANÇON Lecturer in History at the Université of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada JENNIFER MYLANDER Assistant Professor of English in The College of Humanities, San Francisco State University, USA MICHAEL O'CONNOR Research Assistant for the Ireland-JSTOR project, Queen's University, Belfast, UK ROBERT J. SCHOLNICK Professor of English and American Studies, the College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA SANDRA GUARDINI T. VASCONCELOS Full Professor of English Literature, the University of São Paulo, Brazil EUGENIA ROLDÁN VERA Professor, Department of Educational Research, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico City NICHOLAS WRIGHTSON Doctoral Graduate, Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK

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