The Global Histories of Books
Methods and Practices
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The Global Histories of Books
Methods and Practices
About This Book
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 â and thereforeglobal- 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 making possible a globalimagination, shaped by networks of print material, readers, publishers and translators.
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Table of contents
- The Global Histories of Books
- Part I Colonial Networks
- Part II Global Genres
- Part III Reading Relationships
- Part IV Cultural Translation
- Index