The Bookrunner: A History of Inter-American Relations-Print, Politics and Commerce in the United States and Mexico, 1800-1830

Contents: 

• Introduction: Communication, commerce, books
• The business of ideology
• American book history
• My journey from archives to book
• Chapter 1 Philadelphia.
• The beginnings of an Hispanic vogue in the United States
• Business and politics
• Valentin de Foronda
• Translation business
• Growth of the export business and the myth of Philadelphia
• Las Casas
• Philadelphia's Spanish-speaking community
• Chapter 2. The Letters
• Chapter 3. Mexico. Juan German Roscio
• Literary style
• Commerce
• Freemasonry
• Robeson and Veracruz
• Book culture in Mexico
• The Philadelphia/Mexico trade: A summary.
• Conclusion. United States/England/France
• Additional U.S. influence
• Books as commodities
• American readers
• Commerce and books: Postcolonialisms

Appendix A: Books Mathew Carey offered for sale in the Aurora General Advertiser, April 7, 1815 

Appendix B: Suplemento al Noticioso General, Num. 52. Del Miercoles 1 de Mayo de 1822 

Appendix C: Spanish-language books printed by Ackermann, advertised in 1826 in Curiosidades para Los Estudiosos, sold in London in Su Repositorio de Artes, and in Mexico, Colombia, Buenos Aires, Chile, Peru, and Guatemala 

Appendix D: Catalogue of Spanish books and manuscripts, printed in William Robertson's History of America, 1803 Edition.