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1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: book geography, book history / Miles Ogborn and Charles W.J. Withers -- Geographies of production -- The amusements of posterity: print against empire in late eighteenth-century Bengal / Miles Ogborn -- Steam and the landscape of knowledge: W. & R. Chambers in the 1830s-1850s / Aileen Fyfe -- Construing the spaces of print culture: book historians' visualization preferences / Fiona A. Black -- Geographies of circulation -- "Per le piaze & sopra il ponte": reconstructing the geography of popular print in sixteenth-century Venice / Rosa Salzberg -- The counting house library: creating mercantile knowledge in the age of sail / Deryck W. Holdsworth -- Printing posterity: editing varenius and the construction of geography's history / Robert J. Mayhew -- Geographies of reception -- Geography, enlightenment and the book: authorship and audience in Mungo Park's African texts / Charles W.J. Withers -- Books, geography and denmark's colonial undertaking in West Africa, 1790-1850 / Daniel Hopkins -- Volney's tableau, medical geography and books on the frontier / Michael L. Dorn -- Reading the messy reception of influences of geographic environment / Innes M. Keighren. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Book industries and trade -- Political aspects.
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Book industries and trade -- Political aspects. |
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Book industries and trade. |
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Book industries and trade -- Social aspects.
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Book industries and trade -- Social aspects. |
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Books and reading -- Political aspects.
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Books and reading -- Political aspects. |
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Books and reading. |
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Books and reading -- Social aspects.
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Books and reading -- Social aspects. |
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Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects.
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Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects. |
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Publishers and publishing. |
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Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects.
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Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects. |
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Literature and state.
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Literature and state. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ogborn, Miles.
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Withers, Charles W. J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geographies of the book. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2010 9780754678502 (DLC) 2009045898 (OCoLC)465680717 |
| ISBN |
9780754696759 (ebook ; alkaline paper) |
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0754696758 (ebook ; alkaline paper) |
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9780754678502 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0754678504 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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