A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for Learning, 1873–1972

The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873–1972.

David McKitterick (Author)

9780521308038, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 July 2004

536 pages, 35 b/w illus.
25.4 x 18.2 x 3.6 cm, 1.507 kg

' … a goldmine of new information and new insights … fascinating detail … no reader of this Journal will fail to learn something from this book; many, like your reviewer, will learn a very great deal. This is a book worthy of its subject; like all the best products of the press it is scholarly, well-written, beautifully produced and of permanent value.' Journal of the Printing Historical Society

This volume completes the history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. It examines the ways by which the Press launched itself as a London publisher in the 1870s, building up its educational and academic lists. It charts how interests in America were advanced, how subjects were extended and the Press became an international organisation with authors and customers across the world, while at the same time developing both its printing and its publishing. The volume explores changes in the printing industry, showing how the Press assumed a leading part in the typographical renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, and built on this after the Second World War to acquire an international reputation for the quality of its work. In publishing as in printing, this book analyses both the pitfalls and the successes in a century of change.

Preface
1. A century of change
2. 1873
3. Macmillan
4. Growth in publishing, 1870–1900
5. The late nineteenth-century Printing House
6. Markets across the world
7. 1900–1916: a difficult period
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica
9. 1916–1923: fresh beginnings
10. Bibles, 1916–1923
11. Walter Lewis and the typographical renaissance
12. The Roberts years
13. America
14. Kingsford and recovery
15. The American branch
16. Printing, 1946–1963
17. A developing crisis
18. On the brink.

Subject Areas: Publishing industry & book trade [KNTP], Cultural studies [JFC], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], British & Irish history [HBJD1]