The Global Histories of Books : Methods and Practices / edited by Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers.
Boehmer, Elleke, editor.; Kunstmann, Rouven, editor.; Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha, editor.; Rogers, Asha, editor.
2017
Z4-Z15.2
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Title The Global Histories of Books : Methods and Practices / edited by Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers.
ISBN 3319513346
9783319513348
9783319513331
3319513338
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51334-8
Published Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 334 pages 13 illustrations)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-51334-8 doi
Call Number Z4-Z15.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 002
Summary "In this smart, wide-ranging study of texts on the move, the global history of the book becomes a counter-history of the nation. Rather than pitting one against the other, contributors show how entangled these spheres are - and how key print culture is to illuminating points of convergence and divergence. Moving skillfully between dog-eared volumes and the booksellers, readers and marketplaces that made them, this collection brims with insights about the lives of books and their role not simply in reflecting global relations but in creating them -- with every turn of the page."--Antoinette M. Burton, Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA, and co-author with Isabel Hofmeyr of Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire. This collection is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical practice is overly dependent on models of the local and the national, we suggest that approaching the book as a cross-region, travelling - and therefore global- object offers new approaches and methodologies for a study in global perspective. By thus studying the book in its transnational and inter-imperial, textual, inter-textual and material dimensions, this collection will highlight its key role in making possible a global imagination, shaped by networks of print material, readers, publishers and translators
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Added Author Boehmer, Elleke, editor.
Kunstmann, Rouven, editor.
Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha, editor.
Rogers, Asha, editor.
Series New directions in book history.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
SECTION ONE: COLONIAL NETWORKS
Chapter 2. London's Geographic Knowledge Network and the Anson Account (1748)
Katherine Parker
Chapter 3. The Other Empire: Australian Books and American Publishers in the late nineteenth century- David Carter
Chapter 4. Reading by Chance in a World of Wandering Texts
Alexander Bubb
SECTION TWO: GLOBAL GENRES
Chapter 5. 'Read! Learn!': Globalisation and (G)localisation in Caribbean Textbook Publishing
Gail Low
Chapter 6. Governing by the Book: Mediterranean Travel and Sanitary Prophylaxis in the Nineteenth-Century
Riccardo Liberatore
Chapter 7. The Circle of Knowledge: Radical Commensurability and the Deaf Textbook
Hansun Hsiung
SECTION THREE: READING RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 8. 'Bringing Spring to Sahbai's Rose-Garden': Persian Printing in North India after 1857
Zahra Shah
Chapter 9. Reading The Discovery of India in the Library of an Australian Prime Minister
Sybil Nolan
SECTION FOUR: CULTURAL TRANSLATION
Chapter 10. Bustānī's Iliad and Imperialism in the Middle East
Evelyn Richardson
Chapter 11. 'The Narcissism of Small Differences': Plagiarism in South African Letters
Kate Highman
Chapter 12. The Fear of Solitude: How Marketing Makes Real Magic
Ben Holgate
Afterword
Elleke Boehmer

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