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New Directions in Book History Series Editors Shafquat Towheed Faculty of Arts Open University Milton Keynes, UK Jonathan Rose Department of History Drew University Madison, USA As a vital field of scholarship, book history has now reached a stage of maturitywhereitsearlyworkcanbereassessedandbuiltupon.Thatisthe goal of New Directions in Book History. This series will publish mono- graphs in English that employ advanced methods and open up new frontiersin research,writtenby younger,mid-career,andsenior scholars. Itsscopeisglobal,extendingtotheWesternandnon-Westernworldsand to all historical periods from antiquity to the 21st century, including studies of script, print, and post-print cultures. New Directions in Book History,then,willbebroadlyinclusivebutalwaysinthevanguard.Itwill experiment with inventive methodologies, explore unexplored archives, debate overlooked issues, challenge prevailing theories, study neglected subjects,anddemonstratetherelevanceofbookhistorytootheracademic fields. Every title in this series will address the evolution of the historio- graphy of the book, and every one will point to new directions in book scholarship. New Directions in Book History will be published in three formats: single-author monographs; edited collections of essays in single or multiple volumes; and shorter works produced through Palgrave’s e-book (EPUB2) ‘Pivot’ stream. Book proposals should emphasize the innovative aspects of the work, and should be sent to either of the two series editors. Editorial board: Marcia Abreu, University of Campinas, Brazil; Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University, USA; Matt Cohen, University of Texas at Austin, USA; Archie Dick, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Martyn Lyons,University of New South Wales,Australia. More information aboutthisseries at http://www.springer.com/series/14749 EllekeBoehmer(cid:129)RouvenKunstmann(cid:129)PriyashaMukhopadhyay(cid:129)AshaRogers Editors The Global Histories of Books Methods and Practices Editors EllekeBoehmer RouvenKunstmann UniversityofOxford UniversityofOxford Oxford,UK Oxford,UK PriyashaMukhopadhyay AshaRogers HarvardUniversity UniversityofBirmingham Cambridge,MA,USA Birmingham,UK NewDirectionsinBookHistory ISBN978-3-319-51333-1 ISBN978-3-319-51334-8(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-51334-8 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2017939902 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s)2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsof translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthis publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesare exemptfromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformation in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publishernortheauthorsortheeditorsgiveawarranty,expressorimplied,withrespectto the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutionalaffiliations. Coverillustration:robertharding/AlamyStockPhoto Printedonacid-freepaper ThisPalgraveMacmillanimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS The impetus for this volume of essay was a two-day workshop, ‘The Global History of the Book (1780–present)’, we co-organised in Oxford in December 2014, and, for some contributors, a follow-up conference on Writers and Readers in the British Empire at the University of Melbourne in May 2015. We express our gratitude to the University of Oxford’s John Fell Fund, the Ertegun Graduate Programme in the Humanities, the Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar, the English Faculty, the Transnational and Global History Seminar and the Centre for Global History for their generous financial and logistical support. We would also like to thank our conference co- organisers – Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard, and Benjamin Mountford – as well as all those who participated in our discussions, especially Antoinette Burton, Catherine Hall, Isabel Hofmeyr, Aaron Kamugisha, and Marilyn Lake. Margret Frenz was kind enough to read and comment on the introduction, and Ben Doyle at Palgrave has been unfailingly supportive and enthusiastic about the project. v C ONTENTS Introduction 1 Elleke Boehmer,Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha MukhopadhyayandAsha Rogers PART I Colonial Networks London’sGeographic KnowledgeNetwork andthe Anson Account (1748) 23 KatherineParker The Other Empire: Australian BooksandAmerican Publishers in the LateNineteenth Century 47 David Carter Readingby Chancein aWorld of Wandering Texts 73 AlexanderBubb PART II Global Genres ‘Read!Learn!’: Grobalisationand(G)localisation in Caribbean TextbookPublishing 99 Gail Low vii viii CONTENTS Governingby the Book: MediterraneanTravel andSanitary Prophylaxis inthe Nineteenth-Century 129 RiccardoLiberatore The Circle ofKnowledge: Radical Commensurability andthe Deaf Textbook 161 Hansun Hsiung PART III ReadingRelationships ‘BringingSpring toSahbai’sRose-Garden’: Persian Printing inNorth India after1857 191 Zahra Shah ReadingThe DiscoveryofIndia inthe Library of anAustralian Prime Minister 213 SybilNolan PART IV CulturalTranslation Bustānī’sIliad andImperialism inthe Middle East 243 EvelynRichardson ‘The Narcissismof Small Differences’:Plagiarism in SouthAfricanLetters 271 KateHighman The Fearof Solitude:HowMarketing MakesReal Magic 297 BenHolgate Afterword 319 Elleke Boehmer Index 327 L F IST OF IGURES Fig.1 R.W.Seale,‘AchartoftheSouthernpartofSouthAmerica’, copperplateengraving,hand-coloured.London,1748. (ReproducedwithpermissionofMr.ColinPaul.) 32 Fig.2 Anexampleofaguidebookfortravellersprovidedbythe MessageriesNationales,France’sforemostmaritimetranspor- tationcompanyintheMediterranean.LesPaquebotsdu Levant.Guidedesvoyageursdespaquebots-postedela Méditerranée.Servicesmaritimesdesmessageriesnationales. 1853 138 Fig.3 Anillustrationdepicting1stclasspassengersaboardthe MessageriesNationalesenjoyingamealinthesteamship’sdin- ingroom.LesPaquebotsduLevant.Guidedesvoyageursdes paquebots-postedelaMéditerranée.Servicesmaritimesdes messageriesnationales.1853 139 Fig.4 Anexampleofalaterguidebookfortravellersprovidedforfree bytheMessageriesMaritimes(previouslyMessageries Nationales).Itcontainedadvertsandinformationonitiner- ariesandconnections,accommodationandconsumergoods likechocolateoralcoholbutalsoonsanitaryregulation. CompagniedesMessageriesMaritimes,Guideofficieldespas- sagerssurtouteslesmers.PubliésouslepatronagedesCom.ies deNavigation.Paris,1899 140 Fig.5 AGuideJoannetoSouthernItalyfrom1889.Itcost5francs andmeasured16inches.Sanitaryadvicewaswovenintothe descriptionofplacesanditineraries.GuidesDiamant.P. Joanne,L’Italie.Paris,1889 141 ix x LISTOFFIGURES Fig.6 ApagefromCharlesBaker,GraduatedReading;comprisingA CircleofKnowledge,trans.JamesLegge(©TheBritishLibrary Board,11,099.c.6.p.2a) 171 Fig.7 ApagefromJamesLegge,‘PrinciplesofCompositionin Chinese’(PhotocourtesyHarvardUniversityLibraries, Cambridge,MA) 172 Fig.8 MapofnorthIndiashowingtheconnectionsoftheindividuals involvedinthepublicationofSahbai’sworks.Mapauthor’s own 201 Fig.9 Menzies’copyofTheDiscoveryofIndia(Photograph:Sybil Nolan.RobertMenziesCollection,SpecialCollections, BaillieuLibrary,UniversityofMelbourne.) 216 Fig.10 RobertMenzies,secondfromleft,andJawaharlalNehru, centre,withMenzies’wifePattiebetweenthem(Photograph: IndianGovernmentPressBureau.MENZ00158_00001 SpecialCollections,BaillieuLibrary,Universityof Melbourne.) 217 Fig.11 FrontendpaperofMenzies’copyofTheDiscoveryofIndia, withbookplateproclaiminghisownership.Bookplateby LionelLindsay,usedwiththeNationalLibraryofAustralia’s permission(Photo:SybilNolan.RobertMenziesCollection, SpecialCollections,BaillieuLibrary,Universityof Melbourne.) 219 Fig.12 ApagefromEdwardJenks’GovernmentoftheBritishEmpire (Photograph:SybilNolanRobertMenziesCollection,Special Collections,BaillieuLibrary,UniversityofMelbourne.) 222 Fig.13 ‘TheHomereion’(Bustānī,IlyādhatHūmīrūs,p.20) 258
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