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This dissertation argues that book display significantly modifies Robert Darnton’s theory on the communications circuit and life cycle of the book. Antebellum American bookcases conveyed social, cultural, and symbolic capital that not only characterized shared aspirations, but a…
This dissertation examines gift books in the context of the social, literary, and print landscape of the antebellum United States, contending that the books are key sites for examining the intersection of commercial, political, and sentimental interests. While gift books frequen…
This dissertation argues that, contrary to popular conceptions and the current scholarly consensus, rabbinic Jewry did not become a people of the book, or even the people of the Book, until the high middle ages. For in the classical rabbinic period, many rabbinic authorities app…
Printing in the Arab world, unlike its European counterparts, only became regionally prevalent during the late nineteenth century. As such, studies on Arabic printing in Middle Eastern cities emphasize the press's late nineteenth-century modernizing role, particularly its standa…
This study traces the journey of a ninth-century biographical dictionary, Kitab al-T[dotbelow]aabaqat al-Kabir (KTK), from near obscurity to canonical status. The study offers the most comprehensive biography of the book's author Muh[dotbelow]rammad ibn Sa'd (d. 230/845) to date…
Interacting with print: elements of reading in the era of print saturation
by Brewer, David, Keen, Paul, Solomon, Diana, Piper, Andrew, Algee-Hewett, Mark, Borchert, Angela, Brylowe, Thora, Carlson, Julia, Cowan, Brian, Dalton, Susan, Felton, Marie-Claude, Gamer, Michael, Levy, Michelle, Macovski, Michael, Mason, Nicholas, Mole, Tom, Porter, Dahlia, Sachs, Jonathan, Stauffer, Andrew, Taws, Richard, Merveldt, Nikola von, Wellmon, Chad, The Multigraph Collective
