Description: This volume provides a wholly original social history of books in late colonial Peru. From the second half of the eighteenth century onward, workshops in Lima and transoceanic imports supplied the market with unprecedented quantities of print publications. By tracing the variety of printed commodities that were circulating in the urban sphere, as well as analysing the spatiality of the trade and the materiality of the books themselves, Agnes Gehbald assesses the meaning of print culture in the everyday lives of the viceroyalty. She reveals how books permeated late colonial society on a broad scale and how they figured as objects in the inventories of diverse individuals, both women and men, who, in previous centuries, had been far less likely to possess them. Deeply researched and profound, A Colonial Book Market uncovers how people in Peruvian cities gained access to reading material and participated in the global Enlightenment project.
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EAN: 9781009360852
UPC: 9781009360852
ISBN: 9781009360852
MPN: N/A
Format: Hardback, 416 pages
Author: Gehbald, Agnes (Universitat Bern, Switzerland)
Book Title: A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in
Item Height: 2.7 cm
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.75 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
