Harvard University Press - A History

This book tells the story of Harvard University Press, including its ancestry, founding, and evolution, its vividly contrasting leaders, its successes, failures, and troubles, all in the context of the university of which it is a department.

List of contents

Introduction: A University and Its Publishing House 1. Antecedents and Founding 2. First Steps under C. C. Lane, 1913-1919 3. The Murdock Years, 1910-1934 4. Malone and a Wider Audience, 1935-1943 5. Wartime Shock 6. Scaife and Survival, 1943-1947 7. Wilson and the Rise of the Press, 1947-1967 8. The Paperback Question, the Double Helix, and Other Stories 9. Crisis and Reorganization, 1968-1972 Notes Sources and Acknowledgments Index

About the author

Max Hall was Harvard University Press’s first Editor for the Social Sciences (1960–1973).

Summary

Max Hall here chronicles the early stages and first sixty years of Harvard University Press in a rich and entertaining book that is at once Harvard history, publishing history, printing history, business history, and intellectual history.

Product details

• Authors: M. Hall, Max Hall
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1988
• EAN: 9780674380813
• ISBN: 978-0-674-38081-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries