Couverture / Jaquette

Specially designed for publishing and book history courses, this fully revised, restructured and updated edition of a classic text is the only one to provide an overall history of publishing in Britain and of the areas affecting and affected by it.

Note biographique

John Feather

Table des matières

Part 1: The Early Modern Book Trade 1. Literacy, Print and Culture in Early Modern England 2. The Development of the Book Trade 3. The Book Trade and the State 4. The Market for Books Part 2: Publishing in the Industrial Age 5. The First Publishers 6. The Book Trade and the Industrial Revolution 7. Publishing in a Free Trade Economy 8. The Diffusion of Knowledge 9. The Age of the Novel 10. Authors and Publishers Part 3: The Publishing Industry in the Twentieth Century 1. The First of the Mass Media 12. The Publishing Industry 13. Paperback Publishing 14. Publishing for the Empire 15. The Trade in War and Peace 16. New Competitors 17. The Second Industrial Revolution 18. British Publishing in a Global Economy

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