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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.232
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: OgbornMiles WithersCharles W. J
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Geographies of the book
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792361203321
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