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This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq

Book history --- Documentation and information --- 7.025.1 --- 02 <09> <4> --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" --- 355.012 --- 098.1 --- Kunstwerken: schade; averij; vernieling; verwoesting; vandalisme --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Europa --- Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- Oorlogsmisdaden --- Verboden boeken --- Censorship --- Cultural property --- Libraries and society --- Libraries and state --- Libraries --- History --- Destruction and pillage --- 098.1 Verboden boeken --- 355.012 Oorlogsmisdaden --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- 02 <09> <4> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Europa --- 7.025.1 Kunstwerken: schade; averij; vernieling; verwoesting; vandalisme --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- State and libraries --- Cultural policy --- Society and libraries --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Book censorship --- Books --- Literature --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Prohibited books --- Government policy --- Law and legislation --- Case studies --- Bibliotheques --- Livres --- Histoire --- Mutilation, degradation, etc. --- Censure

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In this broad-ranging study, James Raven explores popular literature and the book trade in the second half of the eighteenth century. Based on intensive research into the production and sale of literature ranging from novels and magazines to courtesy books and fashionable tracts, the book examines the representation of the newly wealthy. Dr Raven challenges the notion that prejudice against the businessman was a late nineteenth-century phenomenon. He shows how, during a period of often bewildering change and instability, a competitive literature industry led reaction against excessive consumer spending, contributed to the definition of legitimate economic behaviour, and stimulated unprecedented attacks upon the social presumption of tradesmen. This is a scholarly and stimulating study which makes important contributions to debates on the supposed decline of the British industrial spirit and on the growing self-confidence of the middle class. Judging New Wealth adds very greatly to our understanding of late eighteenth-century England and its cultural and business climate.

Businesspeople in literature --- Commerce dans la littérature --- Commerce in literature --- Handel in de literatuur --- Hommes d'affaires dans la litterature --- Richesse dans la litterature --- Rijkdom in de literatuur --- Wealth in literature --- Zakenlieden in de literatuur --- 655.4 <41> --- 655.42 <41> --- 82:3 --- 820 "17" --- Businessmen in literature --- English literature --- -Literature publishing --- -Popular culture --- Popular literature --- -Publishers and publishing --- -Wealth in literature --- Wealth --- -Affluence --- Distribution of wealth --- Fortunes --- Riches --- Business --- Economics --- Finance --- Capital --- Money --- Property --- Well-being --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- History and criticism --- History --- -History --- -History and criticism --- -Public opinion --- -Publishing --- Publishing --- Great Britain --- Commerce --- -Businessmen in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Literature publishing --- Wealth in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Public opinion --- Businessmen in literature. --- -Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- -Great Britain --- -655.4 <41> --- 820 "17" Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- -82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Affluence --- -Businessmen in literature --- Culture --- 18th century --- England --- Publishers and publishing - England - History - 18th century. --- England - Commerce - Public opinion - History - 18th century.

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This book introduces the fast-developing field of book history. James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.Students, teachers, researchers and general readers will benefit from the book's investigation of the subject's origins, scope and future direction. Based on original research and a wide range of sources, What is the History of the Book? shows how book history crosses disciplinary boundaries and intersects with literary, historical, communications, media, library and conservation studies. Raven uses examples from around the world to explore different traditions in bibliography, palaeography and manuscript studies. He analyses book history's growing global ambition and demonstrates how the study of reading practises opens up new horizons in social history and the history of knowledge. He shows how book history is contributing to debates about intellectual and popular culture, colonialism and the communication of ideas. The first global, accessible introduction to the field of book history from ancient to modern times, What is the History of the Book? is essential reading for all those interested in one of society's most important cultural artefacts.

Books --- Printing --- Bibliography --- History. --- E-books --- Book history --- History as a science --- Bibliography. --- Book industries and trade --- Book industries and trade. --- Books and reading --- Books and reading. --- Books. --- Printing. --- Transmission of texts --- Transmission of texts. --- Livres --- Imprimerie --- Bibliographie --- Transmission de textes --- Livres et lecture --- History --- Histoire --- Industrie --- Transmission des textes --- Industrie et commerce --- Histoire. --- Histoire du livre.

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This book assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of newspapers to the economic transformation of England in the long eighteenth century. The impact of non-book printing has been long neglected. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late 17th century, was the increased separation of printers from bookseller-publishers, from the skilled artisan to the bookseller-financier who might have no prior training in the printing house but who took up the sale of publications as another commodity. This book examines the broader social relationship between publication and the practical conduct of trade. The age of Enlightenment was an age of astonishing commercial and financial transformation offering printers and the business press new market opportunities. Print helped to effect a business revolution. It also changed attitudes and behaviours. Many more people encountered newspapers, business press products or jobbing print than the glamorous books of the Enlightenment. Their wide-ranging outputs had huge implications for the way lives were managed, regulated and recorded.

Book history --- publishing houses --- anno 1700-1799 --- England

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Private houses --- country houses --- architecture [object genre] --- Great Britain --- Ireland