| Contents |
Introduction: book geography, book history / Miles Ogborn and Charles W.J. Withers -- Geographies of production -- The amusements of posterity: print against empire in late eighteenth-century Bengal / Miles Ogborn -- Steam and the landscape of knowledge: W. & R. Chambers in the 1830s-1850s / Aileen Fyfe -- Construing the spaces of print culture: book historians' visualization preferences / Fiona A. Black -- Geographies of circulation -- "Per le piaze & sopra il ponte": reconstructing the geography of popular print in sixteenth-century Venice / Rosa Salzberg -- The counting house library: creating mercantile knowledge in the age of sail / Deryck W. Holdsworth -- Printing posterity: editing varenius and the construction of geography's history / Robert J. Mayhew -- Geographies of reception -- Geography, enlightenment and the book: authorship and audience in Mungo Park's African texts / Charles W.J. Withers -- Books, geography and denmark's colonial undertaking in West Africa, 1790-1850 / Daniel Hopkins -- Volney's tableau, medical geography and books on the frontier / Michael L. Dorn -- Reading the messy reception of influences of geographic environment / Innes M. Keighren. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009045898 |
| ISBN | 9780754678502 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754678504 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754696759 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0754696758 (ebook) |
