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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792361203321

Titolo

Geographies of the book / / edited by Miles Ogborn, Charles W.J. Withers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-4094-8854-3

1-317-12898-2

1-315-58445-X

1-317-12897-4

1-282-52500-X

9786612525001

0-7546-9675-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OgbornMiles

WithersCharles W. J

Disciplina

302.232

Soggetti

Literature and state

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Book Geography, Book History; PART I GEOGRAPHIES OF PRODUCTION; 1 The Amusements of Posterity: Print Against Empire in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal; 2 Steam and the Landscape of Knowledge: W. & R. Chambers in the 1830s-1850s; 3 Construing the Spaces of Print Culture: Book Historians' Visualization Preferences; PART II GEOGRAPHIES OF CIRCULATION; 4 'Per le Piaze & Sopra il Ponte': Reconstructing the Geography of Popular Print in Sixteenth-Century Venice



5 The Counting-House Library: Creating Mercantile Knowledge in the Age of Sail6 Printing Posterity: Editing Varenius and the Construction of Geography's History; PART III GEOGRAPHIES OF RECEPTION; 7 Geography, Enlightenment and the Book: Authorship and Audience in Mungo Park's African Texts; 8 Books, Geography and Denmark's Colonial Undertaking in West Africa, 1790-1850; 9 Volney's Tableau, Medical Geography and Books on the Frontier; 10 Reading the Messy Reception of Influences of Geographic Environment (1911); Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international team of leading scholars, and illustrated by original empirical material, this work provides a timely synthesis to the geographies of the book, and advances new perspectives on how this area of research should be approached.