Books between Europe and the Americas: connections and communities, 1620-1860

A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideasbetween isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south. LESLIE HOWSAM is President of SHARP (the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) and University Professor of History at the University of Windsor, Canada. She is the author of 'Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain 1850-1950' and 'Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book & Print Culture'. JAMES RAVEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, UK and formerly Reader in Social and Cultural History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of publishing and communication, including 'The Businessof Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade' (2007) and his Panizzi Lectures (2010), 'London Booksites: Places of Printing and Publication before 1800'. INDICE: Notes on the Contributors - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction; 'L.Howsam' & 'J.Raven' - Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: AnEarly History of Transatlantic Print; 'C.Armstrong - 'Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus; 'J.Mylander' - Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic; 'P.Whitman Hunter' - Print and Manuscript in French Canada underthe Ancient Régime; 'F.Melançon' - Bookmen, Naturalists, and British AtlanticCommunication, c. 1730-60; 'N.Wrightson - 'The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection; 'J.D.Goodfriend - 'Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800; 'J.Raven' - 'A Small Cargoe for Tryal': Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century; 'M.O'Connor' - From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel; 'S.G.T.Vasconcelos' - 'Learning from Abroad?': Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America; 'E.R.Vera' - Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840-60; 'A.Fyfe' - 'The Power of Steam': Antislavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844-60; 'R.J.Scholnick - 'Conclusion; 'L.Howsam' & 'J.Raven' -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28567-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés