Geographies of the book
By: edited by Miles Ogborn and Charles W.J. Withers.
Contributors: Ogborn, Miles.; Withers, Charles W. J.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754678502; 9780754696759
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Political aspects; Book industries and trade -- Social aspects; Books and reading -- Political aspects; Books and reading -- Social aspects; Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects; Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects; Literature and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: book geography, book history / Miles Ogborn and Charles W.J. Withers; title: Geographies of production; title: The amusements of posterity: print against empire in late eighteenth-century Bengal / Miles Ogborn; title: Steam and the landscape of knowledge: W. & R. Chambers in the 1830s-1850s / Aileen Fyfe; title: Construing the spaces of print culture: book historians' visualization preferences / Fiona A. Black; title: Geographies of circulation; title: "Per le piaze & sopra il ponte": reconstructing the geography of popular print in sixteenth-century Venice / Rosa Salzberg; title: The counting house library: creating mercantile knowledge in the age of sail / Deryck W. Holdsworth; title: Printing posterity: editing varenius and the construction of geography's history / Robert J. Mayhew; title: Geographies of reception; title: Geography, enlightenment and the book: authorship and audience in Mungo Park's African texts / Charles W.J. Withers; title: Books, geography and denmark's colonial undertaking in West Africa, 1790-1850 / Daniel Hopkins; title: Volney's tableau, medical geography and books on the frontier / Michael L. Dorn; title: Reading the messy reception of influences of geographic environment / Innes M. Keighren.