'The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book. Yet, while book history is an established field of study, there has been much less focus on geographical approaches to the book.

Increasingly, however, new work is pointing to the spatial dimensions of book history. Recognition of the significance of place, of the effects of movement over space and of the importance of location in the making, meaning and reception of print culture has been a feature of this recent scholarship, which often draws upon the history of science as well as upon geography and book history.

This collection of essays by geographers, historians and historians of science brings together exciting new perspectives on the geographical dimensions of the book and print culture. Divided into three main sections: Geographies of Production; Geographies of Circulation; Geographies of Reception, the collection convincingly demonstrates that the relationships between the making, movement and reception of books are always geographical, and always complex.' - from back cover

Includes brief biographies of contributors.
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Onsite

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REF.OGM
Language

English

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Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

302

ISBN / ISSN

9780754678502

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Part I: 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' Visualisation Preferences - Fiona A. BLACK

Part II: 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

Part III: 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 (1911) - Innes M. KEIGHREN

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