Printed Matters
Malcolm Gee, Tim Kirk (Editors)
- Synopsis
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This volume examines the centrality of printing and publishing to the understanding of urban culture. The main focus is on case studies in France and Germany in the post 1800 period. Recurrent themes include the role of printing and publishing in urban economies, the construction of metropolitan identities and the testing of moral boundaries. - Contents
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- Introduction
- Tim Kirk, University of Newcastle, and Malcolm Gee, University of Northumbria
- Rouen and its printers from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century
- Jean-Dominique Mellot, Bibliotheque nationale de France
- Lyons' printers and booksellers from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century
- Dominique Varry, ENSSIB, Villurbaine
- Gavarni's Parisian population reproduced
- David W S Gray, University of Northumbria
- The literary dangers of the city: policing immoral books in Berlin, 1850-1880
- Sarah L. Leonard, Brown University
- Readers, browsers, strangers, spectators: narrative forms and metropolitan encounters in twentieth-century Berlin
- Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne
- Commercial spies and cultural invaders: the French press, Pénétration Pacifique and xenophobic nationalism in the shadow of war
- Fay Brauer, University of New South Wales
- Neutrality under threat: freedom, use and 'abuse' in Switzerland, 1914-19
- Debbie Lewer, University of Glasgow
- The 'cultured city': the art press in Berlin and Paris in the early twentieth century
- Malcolm Gee, University of Northumbria
- Text and image in the construction of an urban readership: allied propaganda in France during World War II
- Valerie Holman, University of Westminster
- Structures of the Typescript
- Catherine Viollet, CNRS Paris
- Reviews:
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- The Economic History Review, LV1 no.1, February 2003, 199-200
- The Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 7, 2004, 79-80
- Pages:
- 209
- Publisher:
- Ashgate (10 Jan 2002)
- Language:
- English
- ISBN-10:
- 0754602796
- ISBN-13:
- 978-0754602798