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The Global Histories of Books. Methods and Practices.
. Ed(S): Boehmer, Elleke; Kunstmann, Rouven; Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha; Rogers, Asha
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Hardback. Editor(s): Boehmer, Elleke; Kunstmann, Rouven; Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha; Rogers, Asha. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 378 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Book History
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319513331
SKU
V9783319513331
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About . Ed(S): Boehmer, Elleke; Kunstmann, Rouven; Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha; Rogers, Asha
Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English, in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK, and Director of TORCH. Her most recent monograph, Indian Arrivals 1870-1915, won the ESSE 2016 prize for Literature in English. Her novels include Nile Baby (2008), and The Shouting in the Dark (2015, long-listed Barry Ronge-Sunday Times prize). Rouven Kunstmann is ... Read more
Reviews for The Global Histories of Books. Methods and Practices.
“This rich and diverse collection of essays certainly proves a valuable addition to the growing scholarship on the global histories and transnational circulation of books. It also provides professors with fascinating case studies to examine with their students.” (Cécile Cottenet, Comparativ -Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 29 (3), 2019)