Books Without Borders, Volume 1 Vol. 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-12 Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History....Pages 13-37 Publishing under the Yoke: A Short History of the Bulgarian Book from Paisy of Hilendar to Peyo Yavorov....Pages 38-54 “After the Old; yet as agreeable ... to the Newest”: British and American Almanacs in the Era of American Independence....Pages 55-66 From Germany to Brazil: The History of the Fashion Magazine A Estação, an International Enterprise....Pages 67-88 School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste....Pages 89-106 Origin and Growth of the White Fathers’ Press at Bukalasa, Uganda....Pages 107-129 A New Demand for Old Texts: Philippine Metrical Romances in the Early Twentieth Century....Pages 130-146 Greene, Waugh, and the Lure of Travel....Pages 147-158 Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series — A Publisher’s Memoir....Pages 159-172 Outside the Nation(al): ‘South African’ Print and Book Cultures, and Global ‘text-scapes’....Pages 173-185 Shakespeare’s Postcolonial Journey....Pages 186-198 Back Matter....Pages 199-210 Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies and texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in New Zealand, South and East Africa, Bulgaria, North America, Germany, Brazil, Scotland, the Caribbean, Mauritius and the Philippines