The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond

Presents the final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond.

Andrew Nash (Edited by), Claire Squires (Edited by), I. R. Willison (Edited by)

9781009010474, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 March 2021

784 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.5 cm, 1.178 kg

'What has been done in this volume is immensely valuable. It is a time capsule of a national book history and book history more generally. It belongs - with no excuses - in any library pretending to house the essentials of cultural research.' Robert L. Patten, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range of perspectives in order to create a comprehensive guide, from growing professionalisation at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the impact of digital technologies at the end. Its multi-authored focus on the material book and its manufacture broadens to a study of the book's authorship and readership, and its production and dissemination via publishing and bookselling. It examines in detail key market sectors over the course of the period, and concludes with a series of essays concentrating on aspects of book history: the book in wartime; class, democracy and value; books and other media; intellectual property and copyright; and imperialism and post-imperialism.

Part I: 1. Materials, technologies and the printing industry Sarah Bromage and Helen Williams
2. Format and design Sebastian Carter
3. The digital book Padmini Ray Murray
Part II: 4. Authorship Andrew Nash and Claire Squires
5. Publishing David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery
6. Distribution and bookselling Iain Stevenson
7. Reading and ownership Andrew Nash, Claire Squires and Shafquat Towheed
Part III: 8. Literature Andrew Nash and Jane Potter
9. Children's books Peter Hunt and Lucy Pearson
10. Schoolbooks and textbook publishing Sarah Pedersen
11. Popular science Peter J. Bowler
12. Popular history Helen Williams
13. Religion Michael Ledger-Lomas
14. Publishing for leisure Susan Pickford
15. Museum and art book publishing Sarah Anne Hughes
16. Music John Wagstaff
17. University presses and academic publishing Samatha J. Rayner
18. Journals (STM and humanities) Michael Mabe and Anthony Watkinson
19. Information, reference, and government publishing Susan Pickford
20. Maps, cartography and geographical publishing Iain Stevenson
21. Magazines and periodicals Anthony Quinn
22. Comics and graphic novels Mark Nixon
Part IV: 23. The book in Wartime Jane Potter
24. Books, intellectual property and copyright Catherine Seville
25. Books and the mass market: class, democracy and value Rónán McDonald
26. The book and civil society Kate Longworth
27. Sex, race and class: the radical, alternative and minority booktrade in Britain Gail Chester
28. Counter-culture and underground Chris Atton
29. Books and other media Alexis Weedon
30. Book events, book environments David Finkelstein and Claire Squires
31. The book, British imperialism and post-imperialism Caroline Davis.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literature: history & criticism [DS]