The Global Histories of Books
Methods and Practices
Editors: Boehmer, E., Kunstmann, R., Mukhopadhyay, P., Rogers, A. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Moves Book History beyond its typically Eurocentric roots to a global range of contextsFeatures contributions from a range of well-known contributors across the worldExamines the 'book' both as a material object and as an imaginative circulatory form
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- About this book
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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 – and therefore global- 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 global imagination, shaped by networks of print material, readers, publishers and translators.
- About the authors
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Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English, in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK, and Director of TORCH. Her most recent monograph, Indian Arrivals 1870-1915, won the ESSE 2016 prize for Literature in English. Her novels include Nile Baby (2008), and The Shouting in the Dark (2015, long-listed Barry Ronge-Sunday Times prize).
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. - Reviews
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“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”)
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-20
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London’s Geographic Knowledge Network and the Anson Account (1748)
Pages 23-46
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The Other Empire: Australian Books and American Publishers in the Late Nineteenth Century
Pages 47-72
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Reading by Chance in a World of Wandering Texts
Pages 73-95
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‘Read! Learn!’: Grobalisation and (G)localisation in Caribbean Textbook Publishing
Pages 99-127
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Global Histories of Books
- Book Subtitle
- Methods and Practices
- Editors
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- Elleke Boehmer
- Rouven Kunstmann
- Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
- Asha Rogers
- Series Title
- New Directions in Book History
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-51334-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-51334-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-51333-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-84623-1
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6117
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 334
- Number of Illustrations
- 13 b/w illustrations
- Topics
