This is a study of international print networks developed across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century. The first study of its kind, it draws on unique sources from Australasia, North America, South Africa, the British Isles, and Ireland, to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across international boundaries during the period 1830-1914. Morality, mobility, mobilisation, and solidarity were central to how compositors and print trade workers defined themselves during this period. These themes are addressed in case studies on roving printers, striking printers, and creative printers. The case studies explore the cultural values and trade skills transmitted and embedded by such actors, the global networks that enabled print workers to travel across continents in search of work and experience, the trade actions reliant on mobilization and information-sharing across the printing world, and the creative ideas that printers shared through such means as memoirs, poetry, prose, and trade news contributions to print trade journals and other public outlets.

Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World

History

Finkelstein, David

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Oxford University Press

The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)

The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood &amp; Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors—including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among many others—in book form and in its monthly Blackwood’s Magazine. In The House of Blackwood, David Finkelstein exposes for the first time the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse. 
Finkelstein begins with a general history of the Blackwood firm from 1804 to 1920, attending to family dynamics over several generations, to their molding of a particular political and national culture, to the shaping of a Blackwood’s audience, and to the multiple causes for the firm’s decline in the decades before World War I. He then uses six case studies of authors—Conrad, Oliphant, John Hanning Speke, George Tompkyns Chesney, Charles Reade, and E. M. Forster—and their relationships with the publishing house. He mines the voluminous correspondence of the firm with its authors and, eventually, with the authors’ agents. The value of the archive Finkelstein studies is its completeness, the depth of the ledger material (particularly interesting given that the Blackwoods did much of their own printing), and the extraordinary longevity of the firm. A key value of Finkelstein’s account is his attention to the author/publisher/reader circuit that Robert Darnton emphasizes as the central focus of book history.

Business & Money

Penn State University Press

The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors—including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among many others—in book form and in its monthly Blackwood’s Magazine. In The House of Blackwood, David Finkelstein exposes for the first time the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse. Finkelstein begins with a general history of the Blackwood firm from 1804 to 1920, attending to family dynamics over several generations, to their molding of a particular political and national culture, to the shaping of a Blackwood’s audience, and to the multiple causes for the firm’s decline in the decades before World War I. He then uses six case studies of authors—Conrad, Oliphant, John Hanning Speke, George Tompkyns Chesney, Charles Reade, and E. M. Forster—and their relationships with the publishing house. He mines the voluminous correspondence of the firm with its authors and, eventually, with the authors’ agents. The value of the archive Finkelstein studies is its completeness, the depth of the ledger material (particularly interesting given that the Blackwoods did much of their own printing), and the extraordinary longevity of the firm. A key value of Finkelstein’s account is his attention to the author/publisher/reader circuit that Robert Darnton emphasizes as the central focus of book history.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture.  David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery chart the move from spoken word to written texts, the coming of print, the book as commodity, the power and profile of readers, and the future of the book in the electronic age.  Each section begins with a summary of the chapter’s aims and contents, followed by a detailed discussion of the relevant issues, concluding with a summary of the chapter and suggestions for further reading.   Sections include:  the history of the book  orality to Literacy  literacy to printing  authors, authorship and authority  printers, booksellers, publishers, agents  readers and reading  the future of the book.  An Introduction to Book History is an ideal introduction to this exciting field of study, and is designed as a companion text to The Book History Reader.

An Introduction to Book History

Humor & Entertainment

McCleery, Alistair

Radio

Routledge

An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery chart the move from spoken word to written texts, the coming of print, the book as commodity, the power and profile of readers, and the future of the book in the electronic age. Each section begins with a summary of the chapter’s aims and contents, followed by a detailed discussion of the relevant issues, concluding with a summary of the chapter and suggestions for further reading. Sections include: <ul>
<li>the history of the book </li> <li>orality to Literacy </li> <li>literacy to printing </li> <li>authors, authorship and authority </li> <li>printers, booksellers, publishers, agents </li> <li>readers and reading </li> <li>the future of the book. </li>
</ul>
An Introduction to Book History is an ideal introduction to this exciting field of study, and is designed as a companion text to The Book History Reader.

Introduction to Book History

This second edition of An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture. Each fully revised and updated chapter contains new material and covers recent developments in the field, including: <ul>
<li>The Postcolonial Book</li> <li>Censorship by states and religions</li> <li>Social History, and the recognition of underrepresentation of its value to book history studies</li> <li>Contemporary publishing</li> </ul> Each section begins with a summary of the chapter’s aims and contents, followed by a detailed discussion of the relevant issues, concluding with a summary of the chapter and points to ponder. Sections include: <ul>
<li>the history of the book</li> <li>orality to Literacy</li> <li>literacy to printing</li> <li>authors, authorship and authority</li> <li>printers, booksellers, publishers, agents</li> <li>readers and reading</li> <li>the future of the book. </li> </ul>
An Introduction to Book History is an ideal introduction to this exciting field of study, and is designed as a companion text to The Book History Reader.

Washington's Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-1950: From Abandonment to Salvation

The declaration of the People's Republic of China in October 1949 presented American foreign policy officials with two dilemmas: How to deal with the communist government on the mainland and what to do about Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime on Taiwan. By 1950, these questions were pressing hard upon U.S. civilian and military planners and policy makers, for it appeared that the Red Army was preparing to invade the island. Most observers believed that nothing short of American military intervention would preclude a communist victory. How U.S. officials grappled with the question of what to do about Taiwan is at the heart of Washington's Taiwan Dilemma 
Today, U.S. policy toward Taiwan remains a highly-charged and fundamentally divisive issue in U.S.-China relations--especially the security dimensions of that policy. This volume is essential background reading for understanding the roots of this foreign policy dilemma.

Americas

Naval_Institute_Press

The Melencolia Manifesto (Iop Concise Physics)

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

IOP Concise Physics

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Books by Finkelstein, David

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Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World

The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)

The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)

An Introduction to Book History

An Introduction to Book History

An Introduction to Book History

Introduction to Book History

Washington's Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-1950: From Abandonment to Salvation

The Melencolia Manifesto (Iop Concise Physics)