Editors:
- Moves Book History beyond its typically Eurocentric roots to a global range of contexts
- Features contributions from a range of well-known contributors across the world
- Examines the 'book' both as a material object and as an imaginative circulatory form
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“This rich and diverse collection of essays certainly proves a valuable addition to the growing scholarship on the global histories and transnational circulation of books. It also provides professors with fascinating case studies to examine with their students.” (Cécile Cottenet, Comparativ -Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 29 (3), 2019)
“In this smart, wide-ranging study of texts on the move, the global history of the book becomes a counter-history of the nation. Rather than pitting one against the other, contributors show how entangled these spheres are – and how key print culture is to illuminating points of convergence and divergence. Moving skillfully between dog-eared volumes and the booksellers, readers and marketplaces that made them, this collection brims with insights about the lives of books and their role not simply in reflecting global relations but in creating them -- with every turn of the page.” (Antoinette M. Burton, Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA, and co-author with Isabel Hofmeyr of “Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire”)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Oxford , Oxford, United Kingdom
Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann
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Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
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University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Asha Rogers
About the editors
Rouven Kunstmann is a doctoral researcher in History at the University of Oxford, UK. He focuses on print cultures, nationalism, decolonisation and photography in West Africa as global and local information circulation. His work has been recently published in Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies.
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay is a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, USA. Her research interests include the history of the colonial and postcolonial book, South Asian literatures, and theories of the archive.
Asha Rogers is Lecturer in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature at the School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures, the Cold War and decolonisation, and the interfaces between state cultural institutions and literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Global Histories of Books
Book Subtitle: Methods and Practices
Editors: Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51334-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51333-1Published: 09 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84623-1Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51334-8Published: 26 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 334
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of the Book, Postcolonial/World Literature, Cultural History