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Summary of Darnton’s “‘What is the History of Books?’ Revisited”
To get them clear in my head and to reinforce previous readings, I am going to summarize the introductory readings I have assigned my class for this week. I am going to start with: Robert Darnton,...
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Summary of Adrian Johns’ review of The History of the Book in America
This review is much more than a good review of the five volume The History of the Book in America. It also describes the origins of the book series and in the process gives a good run down of the...
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Summary of Adams and Barker, “A New Model for the Study of the Book”
Thomas R. Adams and Nicolas Barker published this important article in the edited volume, A Potencie of Life: Books in Society; The Clark Lectures, 1986–1987. It was written in response to the...
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Summary of Rubin’s “What is the History of the History of Books?”
This article, by University of Rochester historian Joan Shelly Rubin, provides a historiographic overview of American book history from 1985, after the Needs and Opportunities in the History of the...
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Wilentz-Oakes Discussion 2-4-13
On February 4, 2013, Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, and James Oakes, distinguished professor of history at the CUNY-Graduate Center,...
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Summary of Darnton’s “What is the History of Books?”
Reprinted many times, Darnton’s essay was originally published in 1982. I read the article in The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future. Darnton was writing a social and cultural history of...
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