Author : Elleke Boehmer
Release : 2017-07-26
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 346/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis The Global Histories of Books by : Elleke Boehmer
Download or read book The Global Histories of Books written by Elleke Boehmer. This book was released on 2017-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.