Feely / Hinks Historical Networks in the Book Trade

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-26607-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten

Reihe: The History of the Book

This volume presents a series of up-to-date essays on the history of book-trade networks, benefitting from spatial and networks perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feely, Catherine

Hinks, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Network Theory and Book-Trade History Introduction: a network approach to book-trade history John Hinks 1. Book-trade networks and community contexts John Feather 2. Revealing and mapping networks: potential opportunities and pitfalls for book-trade history Steve Conway 3. History, histories and book trade networks: an exploratory agent-based model Edmund Chattoe-Brown and Simone Gabbiellini Part 2: Case Studies of Book-Trade Networks 4. The book as moveable property in England in the early Middle Ages Elaine Treharne 5. Minding their F’s and Q’s: Shakespeare and the Fleet Street syndicate 1630-32 Jennifer Young 6. The dissemination of political pamphlets in local towns: a comparison between late seventeenth-century Utrecht and Exeter Roeland Harms 7. Early book-trades in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Maureen Bell 8. A hotbed of hawkers: Muneville-le-Bingard and the itinerant book trade in northern France during the Ancien Régime Ian Maxted 9. The role of the Sydney Gazette in the creation of Australia in the Scottish public sphere M. H. Beals 10. Copyright law, transnational book trade and the counter-discourse if the ‘global’ in the Belgian market of cheap reprints Alberto Gabriele 11. Karl Marx’s Capital and transatlantic radical book-trade networks in the early twentieth century Catherine Feely

Über Autor(innen)

John Hinks is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK. He is currently Chair of the Printing Historical Society, a member of the Council of the Bibliographical Society, Reviews Editor of Publishing History and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he edits the British Book Trade Index website (www.bbti.bham.ac.uk ).

Catherine Feely is a Lecturer in History at the University of Derby, UK. She is currently Chair of History Lab Plus, a network of early-career historians based at the Institute of Historical Research, London.