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Author | : Asa Briggs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
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Download A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Social historian Briggs tells the story of Longmans' role in the book trade and its international, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. The UK's oldest commercial publisher, they have produced numerous books on law, medicine, religion, science, sport, reference, and education. Includes index, over 260 illustrations, and five appendices"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Jan van den Berg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000417859 |
Download A Forgotten Christian Deist Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2–1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practitioner, and one of the first who called himself a Christian Deist. Morgan was not only a harbinger of the disparagement of the Old Testament, but also a prolific pamphleteer about things religious, and a publisher of medical books. He received praise for his medical work, but a negative press for his theological visions, and he ended as a forgotten figure in history; this book restores an overlooked writer to his due place in history. It is the first modern biography of Morgan and its readership comprises historians of deism, the enlightenment, the eighteenth century, theology and the church, Presbyterianism, and medical history.
Author | : C. Davis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137401621 |
Download The Book in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet communications.
Author | : Margaret Willes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0300249837 |
Download In the Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard--the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the neighborhood at its base that hummed with life for over a thousand years, becoming a theater for debate and protest, knowledge and gossip. For the first time Margaret Willes tells the full story of the area. She explores the dramatic religious debates at Paul's Cross, the bookshops where Shakespeare came in search of inspiration, and the theater where boy actors performed plays by leading dramatists. After the Great Fire of 1666, the Churchyard became the center of the English literary world, its bookshops nestling among establishments offering luxury goods. This remarkable community came to an abrupt end with the Blitz. First the soaring spire of Old St. Paul's and then Wren's splendid Baroque dome had dominated the area, but now the vibrant secular society that had lived in their shadow was no more.
Author | : Ian Anders Gadd |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 914 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199568405 |
Download History of Oxford University Press: Volume III Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. This third volume begins with the establishment of the New York office in 1896. It traces the expansion of OUP in America, Australia, Asia, and Africa, and far-reaching changes in the business and technology of publishing up to 1970.
Author | : Elisabeth Jay |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 113487362X |
Download The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 25 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1895 novel Old Mr Tredgold with editorial notes by Elisabeth Jay including a new introduction and headnote, proving key information about the book and its publication history.
Author | : Nicolás Bas Martín |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2018-02-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004359524 |
Download Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas recreates, using a bibliographical approach, the manner in which Spain was regarded in Europe in the eighteenth century, by consulting booksellers’ catalogues, private book collections and key auctions in Paris and London.
Author | : Sarah Dewis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317025091 |
Download The Loudons and the Gardening Press Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through close readings of individual serials and books and archival work on the publication history of the Gardener’s Magazine (1826-44) Sarah Dewis examines the significant contributions John and Jane Webb Loudon made to the gardening press and democratic discourse. Vilified during their lifetimes by some sections of the press, the Loudons were key players in the democratization of print media and the development of the printed image. Both offered women readers a cultural alternative to the predominantly literary and classical culture of the educated English elite. In addition, they were innovatory in emphasizing the value of scientific knowledge and the acquisition of taste as a means of eroding class difference. As well as the Gardener’s Magazine, Dewis focuses on the lavish eight-volume Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838), an encyclopaedia of trees and shrubs, and On the Laying Out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries (1843), arguing that John Loudon was a radical activist who reconfigured gardens in the public sphere as a landscape of enlightenment and as a means of social cohesion. Her book is important in placing the Loudons’ publications in the context of the history of the book, media history, garden history, urban social history, history of education, nineteenth-century radicalism and women’s journalism.
Author | : Elleke Boehmer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2017-07-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319513346 |
Download The Global Histories of Books Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 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 therefore global- 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 global imagination, shaped by networks of print material, readers, publishers and translators.
Author | : M. Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2014-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137392592 |
Download The Age of Asa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Asa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and communication more generally have shaped modern society. He has also been a devoted servant of the public good, involved in many inquiries, boards and trusts. Yet few accounts of public life in Britain since the Second World War include a discussion or appreciation of his influential role. This collection of essays provides the first critical assessment of Asa Briggs' career, using fresh research and new perspectives to analyse his contribution and impact on scholarship, the expansion of higher education at home and overseas, and his support and leadership for the arts and media more generally. The online bibliography of Asa Briggs' publications which accompanies the book is available on the The Institute of Historical Research website here.