Geographies of the Book

Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London, UK and Charles W.J. Withers, University of Edinburgh, UK

Introduction: Book Geography, Book History; I: Geographies Of Production; 1: The Amusements of Posterity: Print Against Empire in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal; 2: Steam and the Landscape of Knowledge: W. & R. Chambers in the 1830s-1850s; 3: Construing the Spaces of Print Culture: Book Historians' Visualization Preferences; II: Geographies Of Circulation; 4: ‘Per le Piaze & Sopra il Ponte': Reconstructing the Geography of Popular Print in Sixteenth-Century Venice; 5: The Counting-House Library: Creating Mercantile Knowledge in the Age of Sail; 6: Printing Posterity: Editing Varenius and the Construction of Geography's History; III: Geographies Of Reception; 7: Geography, Enlightenment and the Book: Authorship and Audience in Mungo Park's African Texts; 8: Books, Geography and Denmark's Colonial Undertaking in West Africa, 1790–1850; 9: Volney's Tableau, Medical Geography and Books on the Frontier; 10: Reading the Messy Reception of Influences of Geographic Environment (1911)