The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices

by Boehmer, Elleke
ISBN: 9783319846231
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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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Boehmer, Elleke
  • ISBN: 9783319846231
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 334
  • Publication Year: 2018
Language: English