Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.
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List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Fraser & M.Hammond Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History; S.Shep Publishing Under the Yoke: A Short History of the Bulgarian Book from Paisy of Hilendar to Peyo Yavorov; M.Gibson ‘After the Old; yet as agreeable… to the Newest’: British and American Almanacs in the Era of American Independence; L.Santoro From Germany to Brazil: The History of the Fashion Magazine A Estação , an International Enterprise; A.C.Suriani da Silva School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste; R.Fraser Origin and Growth of the White Fathers Press at Bukalasa, Uganda; I.Page A New Demand for Old Texts: Philippine Metrical Romances in the Early Twentieth Century; P.M.B.Jurilla Greene, Waugh, and the Lure of Travel; L.Prescott Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series – A Publisher’s Memoir; J.Currey Outside the Nation(al): ‘South African’ Print and Book Cultures and Global ‘ Text -scapes’; A.van der Vlies Shakespeare’s Postcolonial Journey; R.Mooneeram Select Bibliography Index
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JAMES CURREY is Chairman of James Currey Publishers, Oxford, UK. ROBERT FRASER is Senior Research Fellow in Literature, Open University, UK. MATTHEW GIBSON is Lecturer in Literature, University of Surrey, UK. MARY HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, University of Southampton, UK. PATRICIA MAY B. JURILLA is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines, Diliman. ROSHNI MOONEERAM is Lecturer in English, University of Central England, UK. FATHER IVAN PAGE is general archivist of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, Rome, Italy. LYNDA PRESCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Staff Tutor in Arts, Open University, UK. LILY SANTORO is a Ph D candidate in American History, University of Delaware, USA. SYDNEY J SHEP is Senior Lecturer in Print& Book Culture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. ANA CLAUDIA SURIANI DA SILVA holds a Ph D from the University of Oxford, UK. ANDREW VAN DER VLIES is Lecturer in Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and Theory, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, UK.
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