The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers

• Autores: Amy Hildreth Chen (res.)
• Localización: RBM : A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, ISSN 1529-6407, Vol. 19, Nº. 2 2, 2018, págs. 154-156
• Idioma: inglés

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  • The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers

    J. Kevin Graffagnino (ed. lit.), Terese M. Austin (ed. lit.), Jayne Ptolemy (ed. lit.), Brian Leigh Dunnigan (ed. lit.)

    Michigan : Ann Arbor: The Clements Library at the University of Michigan, 2017

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• Resumen

  • Editors J. Kevin Graffagnino, Terese M. Austin, Jayne Ptolemy, and Brian Leigh Dunnigan seek to turn Americanists’ attention back to the origins of their field, before the titans of twentieth-century industry built our country’s major collections with the wealth of the industrial revolution. By devoting a book to the earliest collectors, dealers, and bibliographers of Americana, the editors argue that the field was already motivated by nostalgia; they assert that embedded in this history of bookmen is a narrative of how “middle and upper-class America: white, Protestant filiopietistic, and male” chose recent history, an intriguing insight in the time of “Make America Great Again” (11).