TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Rogers, Asha
AU - Boehmer, Elleke
AU - Mukhopadhay, Priyasha
AU - Kunstmann, Rouven
PY - 2017/8/17
Y1 - 2017/8/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 978-3-319-51333-1
T3 - New Directions in Book History
SP - 1
EP - 20
BT - The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices
A2 - Boehmer, Elleke
A2 - Kunstmann, Rouven
A2 - Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha
A2 - Rogers, Asha
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -