The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices by Asha Rogers

The Global Histories of BooksMethods and Practices\nAuthor(s): Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783319513331, 978-3319513331\nSynopsis\nThis book 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 thereforeglobal- 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 globalimaginati.