Singular books -- Publishing as a literary genre -- A letter to a stranger -- Giulio Einaudi -- Luciano Foà -- Peter Suhrkamp -- Vladimir Dimitrijević -- Faire plaisir -- The obliteration of publisher identity -- Aldo Manuzio's fly sheet "An interior look at Roberto Calasso's w…
"The Peace of Utrecht (1713) was perhaps the first political treaty that had a global impact. It not only ended a European-wide conflict, but led to a cessation of hostilities on the American continent and Indian subcontinent, as well as naval warfare worldwide. The treaty also …
Der Band reflektiert wissenschaftliche, soziale und diskursive Praktiken, die für das Projekt der Biokybernetik wie der aktuellen bionischen Prothetik und Medienökologie charakteristisch sind: die Suche nach einem dritten Weg zwischen Technologisierung des Bios und Biologisierun…
"Traces the evolution of New York's publishing trade from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. Explores the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks in the early republic" ... Provided by publisher.
Contemporary publishing and the culture of books
"The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, an…
During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī and Buṭrus al-Bustānī, of later nahḍa fame. In a region where presses were still not prevale…
On February 13, 1914, a group of the nation's most distinguished and popular songwriters gathered together in New York City to support the mission of ASCAP, a new organization for publishers and songwriters. A few years later, ASCAP received its mandate from the Supreme Court to…
Defining the "novel": eighteenth-century concepts of fiction -- Fiction and the book trade -- Authors and anonymous publication -- Reprints of earlier English fiction -- Foreign fiction in English translation -- Fiction with purpose -- Fiction for entertainment -- Conclusion: di…
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, Welky offers this study of how mainstream culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that h…
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, Welky offers this study of how mainstream culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that h…
"[This book] gathers essays from twenty-seven leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and children's publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital func…
Publishing is one of the oldest and most influential businesses in the world. It remains an essential creative and knowledge industry, worth over $140 billion a year, which continues to shape our education and culture. Two trends make this a particularly exciting time. The first…
This volume deals with the De Bru collection of voyages. It analyses the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and the New World. Also, it discusses this editorial strategy in the context of the publishing i…
Geographies of the book
Interweaves history, anecdotes, and analysis with more than one hundred interviews with Marvel insiders to reveal how Marvel, which introduced brightly costumed caped crusaders in the 1960s, became one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America.
