Genres in North American Publishing, 1639-1807

This bubble chart shows the relative prominence of different genres published in North America from the earliest British colonial settlements to 1807. Data provided by The American Antiquarian Society.

Mouse over a circle to see the full name of the genre and the number of works associated with it.

In this visualization, neither the color nor the position of a bubble has any semantic purpose.

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