Past Into Print

The Publishing of History in Britain 1850-1950

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Past into Print explores history books and periodicals as sites of conflict and compromise in order to question how and why historical knowledge is created. Using primary documents and the history books of the period, Leslie Howsam combines two distinct strands of scholarship: the history of the book and publishing and the development of history as a scholarly discipline.Howsam examines the relationships of historians and their publishers through correspondence and readers reports to reveal the assumptions that drove historical projects, which in turn came to shape the careers of writers, the reputations of publishing houses, and the values of a discipline. The first systematic exploration of the publishing history of history, Past into Print uncovers the ways in which historical writing was mediated by the book trade and traces how mid-Victorian narrative certainties gave way to twentieth-century disciplinary anxieties.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-28
Mått:180 x 251 x 21 mm
Vikt:720 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442640573

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Leslie Howsam is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Windsor.

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'Howsam provides not only a better and more rounded understanding of the development of British history as a practice and discipline, it opens up a realm of issues, themes, and questions that ought to be explored by all modern historians when they think about what they do and have done.' - Stephen Heathorn (Canadian Journal of History, vol45: Autumn2010)

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: Narrative and DisciplineChapter 1. Every Schoolboy Knows: Publishing the Narrative of England's Liberty, 1850-1863The Life Cyel of the History-Book ReaderThe Agency of the PublisherTension between Professional and Popular Accounts of the PastHistory Books as Material ObjectsNursery Histories and Their CompetitionNew Editions of Old Titles Chapter 2. Quality and Profit: New Histories of England, 1863-1880Alexander MacMillan and the HistoriansThe Clarendon Press (Oxford) and the HistoriansThe Pitt Press (Cambridge) and the Historians Chapter 3. Breaking the Drowsy Spell of Narrative, 1880-1914Seeley and the Reading PublicBrowning and the PublishersNew Formats for History: Periodicals and SeriesActon and the Cambridge Modern HistoryNew Blood at Oxford Chapter 4. Historians and Publishers in an Age of War and Revolution, 1914-1929Revisions and ReiterationsErnest Barker at OxfordBelligerents and Ex-Belligerents, A Series Imagining an Oxford History of EnglandMore Histories at CambridgeThe Cambridge Collaborative HistoriesThe Power Sisters and Cambridge Histories for ChildrenLondon Publishers 1914-1929 Chapter 5. Knowledge in the Marketplace, 1930-1950The Cambridge Collaborative HistoriesHistory from the Oxford University PressHistory Books: Text, Object, Context Epilogue: History, Out of Print