Böcker av Gregory M. Pfitzer

Explores how the emergence of a new literary marketplace in the mid-nineteenth century affected the study of history in America. In an effort to illuminate the cultural conditions for this boom, this book focuses on the business of book making and book promotion. It analyzes the subscription sales techniques of book agents.

Scrutinizes and contextualizes the original 19th century children's history books on which recent pedagogical republications are based. The author demonstrates that far from being non-ideological, these works were rooted in intense contemporary debates over changing conceptions of childhood, focusing on different pedagogical strategies and philosophies of history.