Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations and Maps vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Print Culture Histories beyond the Metropolis: An Introduction 1
6. PART ONE. Circulation
7. 1. Non-Metropolitan Printing and Business in Britain and Ireland between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries 29
8. 2. “I have hitherto been entirely upon the borrowing hand”: The Acquisition and Circulation of Books in Early Eighteenth- Century Dissenting Academies 54
9. 3. The Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth- Century Evolution of Indian Print Culture and Knowledge Networks in Calcutta and Madras 88
10. 4. Beyond the Market and the City: The Informal Dissemination of Reading Material during the American Civil War 123
11. 5. Cosmopolitan Ideals, Local Loyalties, and Print Culture: The Career of George Chandler Bragdon in Upstate New York 150
12. 6. What Travels? The Movement of Movements; or, Ephemeral Bibelots from Paris to Lansing, with Love 181
13. 7. Circum-Atlantic Print Circuits and Internationalism from the Peripheries in the Interwar Era 215
14. PART TWO. Place
15. 8. At the Dawn of the Information Age: Reading and the Working Classes in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1830–1850 243
16. 9. Uneasy Occupancy: Sarah Grand, The Beth Book, and a Colonial Reader 268
17. 10. Alger, Fosdick, and Stratemeyer in the Heartland: Crossover Reading in Muncie, Indiana, 1891–1902 284
18. 11. Romance in the Province: Reading German Novels in Middletown, USA 304
19. 12. Print Culture and Cosmopolitan Trends in 1890s Muncie, Indiana 331
20. 13. Zones of Connection: Common Reading in a Regional Australian Library 355
21. 14. Organized Print: Clara Steen and Institutional Sites of Reading and Writing in the American Midwest, 1895–1920 375
22. Secondary Works Cited 393
23. Contributors 427
24. Index 429