Books and reading -- Political aspects

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While it is divided into three main sections, this book makes clear that the relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically), and the reception of and reaction to books are complex.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Book Geography, Book History -- PART I GEOGRAPHIES OF PRODUCTION -- 1 The Amusements of Posterity: Print Against Empire in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal -- 2 Steam and the Lands…

The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book. Yet, while the history of the book is an established research field, including important work on the production and dissemination of the book, on print culture and on reading practices and other matters of reception…

The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book, though far less thoroughly explored. Yet research has increasingly pointed to the spatial dimensions of book history, to the transformation of texts as they are made and moved from place to place, from authors to re…

Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international team of leading scholars, and illustrated by original empirical material, this work provides a timely synthesis to the geographies of the book, and advances new perspectives on how this area of research should be approached.

While it is divided into three main sections, this book makes clear that the relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically), and the reception of and reaction to books are complex.

While it is divided into three main sections, this book makes clear that the relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically), and the reception of and reaction to books are complex.