Removable type : histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880 / Phillip H. Round.

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Main Author: Round, Phillip H., 1958-
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Books and reading.
Books and reading > United States > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Government relations.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Physical Description:xii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The coming of the book to Indian country
  • Being and becoming literate in the eighteenth-century native northeast
  • New and uncommon means
  • Public writing I : "to feel interest in our welfare"
  • Public writing II : the Cherokee, a "reading and intellectual people"
  • Proprietary authorship
  • The culture of reprinting
  • Indigenous illustration.