| The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Boehmer, Elleke (Editor), Kunstmann, Rouven (Editor), Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319513338 ISBN-13: 9783319513331 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 002 |
| Series: New Directions in Book History |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.24 lbs) 334 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book 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. |