How Books Came to America Martin Palous Chronicles Johns Hopkins Medicine's triumphs

Chronicles Johns Hopkins Medicine's triumphs and challenges during the last ten years

Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses

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How Books Came to America Martin Palous Chronicles Johns Hopkins Medicine's triumphsTraces the development of the American book trade from the colonial era through the twentieth century. Explores the technological, historical, cultural, political, and personal forces that shaped the trade, paying particular attention to the contributions of the German bookseller Frederick Leypoldt and his journal Publishers Weekly.