The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Howsam |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107023734 |
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
The Cambridge World History
Title | The Cambridge World History PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry H. Bentley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-04-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521761628 |
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Title | The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Lotte Hellinga |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 846 |
Release | 1999-12-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521573467 |
This volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. The profound changes during that time in social, political and religious conditions are reflected in the dissemination and reception of the written word. The manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. The emphasis in this collection of essays is on the demand and use of books. Patterns of ownership are identified as well as patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand. The book trade receives special attention, with emphasis on the large part played by imports and on links with printers in other countries, which were decisive for the development of printing and publishing in Britain.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Title | The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Nash |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 784 |
Release | 2021-03-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781009010474 |
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range of perspectives in order to create a comprehensive guide, from growing professionalisation at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the impact of digital technologies at the end. Its multi-authored focus on the material book and its manufacture broadens to a study of the book's authorship and readership, and its production and dissemination via publishing and bookselling. It examines in detail key market sectors over the course of the period, and concludes with a series of essays concentrating on aspects of book history: the book in wartime; class, democracy and value; books and other media; intellectual property and copyright; and imperialism and post-imperialism.
The Cambridge History of the English Language
Title | The Cambridge History of the English Language PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Francis Blake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780511468469 |
Volume two of this set covers the Middle English Period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyses developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.
A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913
Title | A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Atkins Eliot |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Cambridge (Mass.) |
ISBN |
The History of the University of Cambridge
Title | The History of the University of Cambridge PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Fuller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1840 |
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