Books Between Europe and the Americas : Connections and Communities, 1620-1860

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. 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 Books between Europe and the Americas is a ground-breaking collection of essays by thirteen distinguished international scholars. It opens with a survey of current research, presenting fresh historical perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas across the Atlantic. Contributions reveal how distances were bridged and isolated communities supported and strengthened by the transmission of books, print and correspondence. In particular, the collection offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south. The volume opens with a survey of current research in transatlantic book history and explorations of overseas news in the 1620s, the American reception of Faustus and later accounts of scandal and heroism, and print and manuscript transmission in early Canada. Other essays consider British Atlantic naturalists, the Dutch New York book trade, the circulation of Latin and Greek texts in North and Central America, the Belfast-Philadelphia book trade, the transatlantic Brazilian novel, the arrival of the monitorial system in Spanish America, and US book imports and transatlantic crusades against slavery in the mid nineteenth century