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colportage

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col·por·tage  (klpôrtj, -pr-)
n.
The work of a colporteur.
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His comments on available reading matter through colportage, book stores, and libraries, are interesting and helpful; and he is alert to theoretical work, Roger Chartier's most notably, supplemented with references to many others, including Pierre Bourdieu and even Stanley Fish.
Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, ... by Grew, Raymond / Journal of Social History
In one of the most remarkable histories of confrontational litigation by a religious minority, the Jehovah's Witnesses argued over fifty cases before the Supreme Court, around issues including flag-saluting, colportage, and conscientious objection.
It's About the Land by BROWN, BRIAN EDWARD / Cross Currents
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