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Geographies of the book

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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.

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