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Titolo: Geographies of the book / / edited by Miles Ogborn, Charles W.J. Withers Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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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