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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: M. Hall, Max Hall, Hall Max
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.06.1988
• EAN: 9780674380813
• ISBN: 978-0-674-38081-3
• Pagine: 272
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; USA, History, HISTORY / General, United States of America, USA