Books without borders
By: edited by Robert Fraser and Mary Hammond.
Contributors: Fraser, Robert, 1947-; Hammond, Mary, 1960-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230217171; 9780230537590; 9780230210332
Subjects: Books -- History; Book industries and trade -- History; Books and reading -- History; Literature and globalization; Globalization; Civilization, Modern
Description: Volume 1 uses archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world to examine the position of the book as a national concept. Among the questions raised by the contributors is whether the book enshrines the soul of a nation, or is instead a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, and texts.

Volume 2 concentrates on one of the world's oldest, and most buoyant, book cultures: South Asia. It examines the transition from manuscript to hand press, orality and performance, scripts and nationalism, libraries and copyright, and the recent international vogue for Europhone writers from the region.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The cross-national dimension in print culture; title: v. 2. Perspectives from South Asia.