History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for - Learning, 1873 197

Informationen zum Autor Dr David McKitterick is Fellow and Librarian, Trinity College, Cambridge. Klappentext The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873 1972. Zusammenfassung This volume completes the history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. It examines the ways by which the Press launched itself as a London publisher in the 1870s! and shows how the Press's printing assumed a leading role in modern typographical history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. A century of change; 2. 1873; 3. Macmillan; 4. Growth in publishing, 1870-1900; 5. The late nineteenth-century Printing House; 6. Markets across the world; 7. 1900-1916: a difficult period; 8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; 9. 1916-1923: fresh beginnings; 10. Bibles, 1916-1923; 11. Walter Lewis and the typographical renaissance; 12. The Roberts years; 13. America; 14. Kingsford and recovery; 15. The American branch; 16. Printing, 1946-1963; 17. A developing crisis; 18. On the brink.

Product details

• Authors: David Mckitterick, David (University of Cambridge) McKitterick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.2004
• EAN: 9780521308038
• ISBN: 978-0-521-30803-8
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: History of Cambridge Universit; History of Cambridge Universit; A History of Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism