© Columbia University Press
The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870
Paper, 568 pages, 26 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-13909-0
$26.50
/ £18.50
September, 2007
Cloth, 568 pages, 26 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-13908-3
$75.00
/ £52.00
"Loughran’s logic throughout is deep, intricate, and scholarly... Good reading." — American Journalism
"Loughran’s well-written book will likely promote vigorous debate among historians of U.S. nationhood, print culture, and slavery." — Carl Ostrowski, The Journal of American History
"A remarkable study, both in its marshaling of archival detail and in its ambitious thesis." — Phillip H. Round, William and Mary Quarterly
"...Promise[s] to be useful to literary scholars in many ways." — College Literature
"This book is inventively dialectical, unfailingly provocative, and consistently interesting. It formulates its myraid insights with an unusually rich, incisive and occasionally playful language that is deligtful to read." — Oz Frankel, American Historical Review
"Trish Loughran possesses an unusually and admirably capacious intellectual character. This is a book that will have to be read by any serious student of the early republic and by any serious student of the crisis over slavery." — Jonathan Arac, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
"The Republic in Print delivers a knock-out punch to the supposedly determinate linkages between print culture and nation formation that underwrite much of the scholarship about early America in a number of fields. The book is a massive achievement, marvelously original, refreshingly polemical, compelling in its argument, and complex in its implications. Its importance will be immediately evident and its influence widespread." — Jay Fliegelman, William Robertson Coe Professor in American Literature, Stanford University
"Asking us to rethink the meaning of nation and nation building in the aftermath of 1790, Trish Loughran has provided a series of remarkable case studies that support her skepticism about those subjects. An immensely valuable book." — David D. Hall, Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, Harvard University
"A masterful reconceptualization of the role of print culture in the founding of the American nation. The claims of this book are ambitious and original, and Trish Loughran delivers. I can think of very few works of American studies that I have read in the past twenty years that are as intellectually satisfying, as archivally meticulous, and as broadly conceived as The Republic in Print." — Cindy Weinstein, professor of English, California Institute of Technology