By David McKitterick
ISBN-10: 0521866243
ISBN-13: 9780521866248
The years 1830-1914 witnessed a revolution within the manufacture and use of books as nice as that during the 15th century. utilizing new know-how in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers labored with authors and illustrators to satisfy ever-growing and extra various calls for from a inhabitants looking books in any respect rate degrees. The essays by way of major publication historians during this quantity express how books turned affordable, how publishers used the journal and newspaper markets to increase their impact, and the way ebook possession turned common for the 1st time. The fullest account ever released of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this quantity brings the Cambridge background of the ebook in Britain as much as some extent while the area of books took on a recognisably glossy shape. 
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25 David McKitterick with and against concepts of nationhood whose modern history was founded in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In the minds of many educated people, British identity, with all its internal contradictions, was defined as what it was not: it was distinct from what were thought to be French or (later, and more complicated) German interests and manners. 85 For the whole of this period, Britain was involved in no major European war. 86 Religion, the ambivalent reconnoitring between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism – cautious, pitifully slow, and riddled with suspicions that have never been entirely discarded – remained a principal cause of Anglo-Irish tension long after the French threat of papacy had been demolished.
40 Seeley, Introduction to political science, p. 374. His remarks were delivered during a lecture to students at Cambridge, first in 1886. On language, see further below, pp. 25–31. , pp. 8–9. 42 J. I. C. Boyd, The Tal-y-llyn railway (Didcot, 1988), p. 98. 43 Renan, Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? 44 Kirchberger, Aspekte deutsch-britischer Expansion. ), The rise of colonial nationalism, and for Asia see Bayly, ‘The evolution of colonial cultures’. 45 Crouzet, De la sup´eriorit´e de l’Angleterre sur la France; Greenhalgh, Ephemeral vistas; Porter, The absent-minded imperialists.
Murch´ 90 Crowley, Wars of words. 91 O u, ‘Language and society in nineteenth-century Ireland’. ’s National commercial directory (1830), ‘Cornwall’, p. 1. 27 David McKitterick Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language, originally published by subscription at Edinburgh in 1808, and abridged and revised in 1846 and 1867, remained standard for generations. 93 These and other enterprises set a scholarly seal on some of Britain’s linguistic traditions and practices, but in some respects they represented a tradition wholly unknown in other parts of the community.
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