Product Description: This second edition of An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture. Each fully revised and updated chapter contains new case studies and will cover recent developments in the field, including: The Postcolonial Book Censorship by states and religions Social History, and the recognition of underrepresentation of its value to book history studies Contemporary publishing Each section begins with a summary of the chapter’s aims and contents, followed by a detailed discussion of the relevant issues, concluding with a summary of the chapter and suggestions for further reading...read more

Product Description: Following on from the widely successful first volume, this second edition has been updated and expanded to create an essential collection of writings examining different aspects of the history of books and print culture. Arranged in thematic sections, bringing together a wide range of contributors, and featuring introductions to each section, this new edition: contains more extracts covering issues of gender, material culture and bibliographical matters has a brand new section on the future of the book in the electronic age examines different aspects of book history including: the development of the book, spoken words to written texts, the commodifcation of books, and the power and profile of readers...read more

Product Description: In late 1804, William Blackwood established a small publishing and bookselling firm in Edinburgh. Over the next 175 years, William Blackwood & Sons became one of the leading publishers in Britain, enjoying both local and international success...read more

Product Description: What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with leading physicists and a historian? This book is the carefully edited record of the fascinating discussions at a Mind and Life conference in which five leading physicists and a historian (David Finkelstein, George Greenstein, Piet Hut, Arthur Zajonc, Anton Zeilinger, and Tu Weiming) discussed with the Dalai Lama current thought in theoretical quantum physics, in the context of Buddhist philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Scottish publishing house of William Blackwoood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in 19th- and early 20th-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors - including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among others - in book form and in its monthly "Blackwood's Magazine"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: John Gunn, Eric Martin, Bob Sinclair and Bill Reid tell of their experiences in the internationally known printing and publishing firm Thomas Nelson and Son, whose Parkside Works on Dalkeith Road was an institution on Edinburgh's Southside until well into the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: This collection of research in 19th-century media history represents some salient developments in the field. Taking as its theme the way the media serves to define national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual identities, the volume addresses serials in the UK, the US, and Australia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of important new research in 19th-century media history represents some salient, recent developments in the field. Taking as its theme, the ways the media serves to define identities—national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual, the volume addresses serials in the UK, the US, and Australia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of twelve original essays is the first concerted attempt to examine representations of India in the 19th-century media. It offers analyses of a representative sampling of contemporary media publications produced in India as well as in Britain between 1840 and 1900...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This index to "Blackwood's Magazine" offers chronological material, alphabetic information and data on pseudonyms.