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

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