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Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir, eds. Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences
Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir, eds. Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016. xviii, 269p., ill. ISBN 978815634034. US $34.95. By…
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Pamela Spence Richards, Wayne A. Wiegand, and Marija Dalbella, eds. A History of Modern Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of Western Culture
Pamela Spence Richards, Wayne A. Wiegand, and Marija Dalbella, eds. A History of Modern Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of Western Culture. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2015. 248p., notes, bibliographies,…
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David vander Meulen, ed. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 59
David vander Meulen, ed. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 59. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. vi, 336p., ill. ISBN 9780813933016. US…
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Thomas McLaughlin. Reading and the Body: The Physical Practice of Reading
Thomas McLaughlin. Reading and the Body: The Physical Practice of Reading. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x, 208p., ill. ISBN 9781137541314. US $95. Reading and the Body is an important…
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Cheryl Knott. Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow
Cheryl Knott. Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. x, 312p., ill. ISBN 9781625341785. US $28.95.…
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Heather Haveman. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
Heather Haveman. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 432p. ISBN 9780691164403. US $45.00. Haveman’s work explores the changing ways…
