The Global Histories of Books

This collection is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical practice is overly dependent on models of the local and the national, we suggest that approaching the bo...

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This collection is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical practice is overly dependent on models of the local and the national, we suggest that approaching the book as a cross-region, travelling – and therefore global- object offers new approaches and methodologies for a study in global perspective. By thus studying the book in its transnational and inter-imperial, textual, inter-textual and material dimensions, this collection will highlight its key role in making possible a global imagination, shaped by networks of print material, readers, publishers and translators.

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English, in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK, and Director of TORCH. Her most recent monograph, Indian Arrivals 1870-1915, won the ESSE 2016 prize for Literature in English. Her novels include Nile Baby (2008), and The Shouting in the Dark (2015, long-listed Barry Ronge-Sunday Times prize).

Rouven Kunstmann i...

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Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English, in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK, and Director of TORCH. Her most recent monograph, Indian Arrivals 1870-1915, won the ESSE 2016 prize for Literature in English. Her novels include Nile Baby (2008), and The Shouting in the Dark (2015, long-listed Barry Ronge-Sunday Times prize).

Rouven Kunstmann is a doctoral researcher in History at the University of Oxford, UK. He focuses on print cultures, nationalism, decolonisation and photography in West Africa as global and local information circulation. His work has been recently published in Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies.

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay is a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, USA. Her research interests include the history of the colonial and postcolonial book, South Asian literatures, and theories of the archive.

Asha Rogers is Lecturer in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature at the School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures, the Cold War and decolonisation, and the interfaces between state cultural institutions and literature.

Introduction
Boehmer, Elleke (et al.)
Pages 1-20
London’s Geographic Knowledge Network and the Anson Account (1748)
Parker, Katherine
Pages 23-46
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Introduction
Boehmer, Elleke (et al.)
Pages 1-20
London’s Geographic Knowledge Network and the Anson Account (1748)
Parker, Katherine
Pages 23-46
The Other Empire: Australian Books and American Publishers in the Late Nineteenth Century
Carter, David
Pages 47-72
Reading by Chance in a World of Wandering Texts
Bubb, Alexander
Pages 73-95
‘Read! Learn!’: Grobalisation and (G)localisation in Caribbean Textbook Publishing
Low, Gail
Pages 99-127
Governing by the Book: Mediterranean Travel and Sanitary Prophylaxis in the Nineteenth-Century
Liberatore, Riccardo
Pages 129-160
The Circle of Knowledge: Radical Commensurability and the Deaf Textbook
Hsiung, Hansun
Pages 161-187
‘Bringing Spring to Sahbai’s Rose-Garden’: Persian Printing in North India after 1857
Shah, Zahra
Pages 191-212
Reading The Discovery of India in the Library of an Australian Prime Minister
Nolan, Sybil
Pages 213-240
Bustānī’s Iliad and Imperialism in the Middle East
Richardson, Evelyn
Pages 243-269
‘The Narcissism of Small Differences’: Plagiarism in South African Letters
Highman, Kate
Pages 271-295
The Fear of Solitude: How Marketing Makes Real Magic
Holgate, Ben
Pages 297-317
Afterword
Boehmer, Elleke
Pages 319-325
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