Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' and Authors' Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Section I. Print in Motion -- CHAPTER 1 A Framework for the History of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940 -- CHAPTER 2 Seeing the Sites: Readers, Publishers, and Local Print Cultures in 1880 -- Section II. The Publishing Trades -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 3 The Rise of a National Book Trade System in the United States -- CHAPTER 4 The Expansion of the National Book Trade System -- CHAPTER 5 Copyright in Transition -- CHAPTER 6 Diverging Paths: Books and Magazines in the Transition to Corporate Capitalism -- CHAPTER 7 From Partisanship to Professionalism: The Transformation of the Daily Press -- CHAPTER 8 Persistence of Vision: Partisan Journalism in the Mainstream Press -- CHAPTER 9 Unruly Servants: Machines, Modernity, and the Printed Page -- CHAPTER 10 Ambivalent Advertising: Books, Prestige, and the Circulation of Publicity -- Section III. The Social Uses of Print -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 11 Learned and Literary Print Cultures in an Age of Professionalization and Diversification -- CHAPTER 12 Crafting a Communications Infrastructure: Scientific and Technical Publishing in the United States -- CHAPTER 13 The Government as Publisher -- CHAPTER 14 Gilded-Age Consensus, Repressive Campaigns, and Gradual Liberalization: The Shifting Rhythms of Book Censorship -- CHAPTER 15 Distinctive Media: The European Ethnic Press in the United States -- CHAPTER 16 Exiles, Immigrants, and Natives: Hispanic Print Culture in What Became the Mainland of the United States -- CHAPTER 17 Reading, Writing, and Resisting: African American Print Culture -- CHAPTER 18 An Outpouring of "Faithful" Words: Protestant Publishing in the United States -- CHAPTER 19 Two Ambitious Goals: American Jewish Publishing in the United States.

CHAPTER 20 Running the Ancient Ark by Steam: Catholic Publishing -- Section IV. Readers and Reading -- PART A. INSTITUTIONS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 21 From McGuffey to Dick and Jane: Reading Textbooks -- CHAPTER 22 The American Public Library: Construction of a Community Reading Institution -- CHAPTER 23 The Great Libraries -- PART B. READING IN SITU -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 24 Aflame with Culture: Reading and Social Mission in the Nineteenth-Century White Women's Literary Club Movement -- CHAPTER 25 Reading and Race Pride: The Literary Activism of Black Clubwomen -- CHAPTER 26 Making Meaning: Analysis and Affect in the Study and Practice of Reading -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.