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Hoy, Joan McElroy. "The Publication and Distribution of Books among New England Quakers, 1775-1836," Boston University, April 1989.
As a sectarian group in American society, the Society of Friends used books to help maintain its cultural identity. Through the network of the Quaker Meetings, the group published and circulated books apart from the mainstream of the American book trade. This work focuses on the official role of the Meeting and the individual efforts of Moses Brown (1736-1836), the leading Quaker in the region. Together, the Meeting and Brown helped maintain a communications circuit. This dissertation examines the business, cultural, and religious aspects of this circuit and concludes that books that books were agents of both change and conservatism as Quakers struggled with questions of organization, doctrine, and power.
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