The Global Histories of Books
Subtitle: Methods and Practices
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 28, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9783319513331
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices (New Directions in Book History)