The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319513338
• ISBN13: 9783319513331
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"