| Author/Contributor(s): | Wosh, Peter J |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Date: | 06/28/1994 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.