scholarly journals Looking Backward to the Future

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Winship
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institutional Funding ◽  
Support Research

A key moment in the emergence of the history of the book as an independent discipline occurred in summer 1980, when the participants at the international conference “Books and Society in History” in Boston gathered to issue a manifesto defining the field and calling for institutional funding to support research. Thirty-five years on, my essay draws on my experience as an editor of and contributor to the A History of the Book in America series to explore how that History came to be shaped by discussions during a series of editorial board meetings during the 1990s. I conclude by suggesting a few ways that scholars and historians might now build on those foundations for future directions in their work in book history.

scholarly journals Prvih 20 godina časopisa National Security and the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-52
Author(s):  
Miroslav Tuđman
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Past ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
Information Operations ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

The author gives an overview of the history of National Security and the Future (NSF). The first editorial board accepted a clear vision and mission of the NSF. That is why the NSF had to react to the political circumstances in which the journal has operated for 20 years. In the first period, international circumstances and the policy of detuđmanization directly influenced the choice of topics and papers published in the journal. For the past five years, the NSF has paid particular attention to the security of national and European critical infrastructure. A total of 257 texts were published on more than 8,000 pages and authored by 134 authors from 25 countries. The NSF has published studies on historical forgery, information operations, production of "fake news" and contributions to the theory and methodology of intelligence activities.

scholarly journals Thinking Through the History of the Book

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Howsam
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Conceptual Category ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Material Form ◽  
Organic Change

An impressive body of meticulous scholarship in the history of the book has led scholars to reject outmoded models of revolutionary change and technological determinism, and instead to explore themes of evolution and organic change. Similarly, the old unitary and Eurocentric book history is being supplanted by a series of parallel narratives where the focus is on human adaptation of new technologies to newly felt needs and fresh marketing opportunities. The article suggests that the study of book history is a way of thinking about how people have given material form to knowledge and stories. It highlights some particularly ambitious recent arguments, and emphasizes research, theory and pedagogy as the means to a wider understanding. Rather than being an academic discipline, book history is identified as an “interdiscipline,” an intellectual space where scholars practicing different disciplinary approaches and methodologies address the same capacious conceptual category.

scholarly journals A Companion to the History of the Book, 2nd edition. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds.

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Jessie Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Book History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
History Of

When he declared, “the physical book really has had a 500-year run” in a 2009 interview, Jeff Bezos might well be forgiven for thinking that the book began with Gutenberg. Histories of the book have tended to give the impression that it emerged with movable type and existed largely, if not exclusively, in Mainz, New York, London, Paris, Venice, and environs. The first edition to A Companion to the History of the Book, first published in 2007, was a welcome, albeit modest, corrective to this narrow focus. While the bulk of its attention was on print in Western Europe and the United States, it incorporated chapters on manuscripts, books in Asia and Latin America, and the Hebraic and Islamic traditions, broadening the scope of book history both chronologically and geographically.

scholarly journals “Displaced archives”: proposing a research agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Global History ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Phenomenon

Abstract In the opening keynote speech at the Eighth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 8) in Melbourne, Australia, the author provided an overview of archival displacement as an historical phenomenon, before concentrating on postcolonial cases and arguing for a fuller global history of the displacement of archives during decolonisation. The talk concluded with some thoughts on future directions for research on displaced archives. Understanding the term “displaced archives” to refer to any records that have been removed from the context of their creation and whose ownership is disputed, this short article elaborates further upon a potential research agenda for displaced archives, which remains an under-researched area in archival studies.

Literary Debt

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (5) ◽  
pp. 1480-1488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Freedgood
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Definite Article ◽  
Book Production ◽  
North African ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
History Of

Postcolonial Publishing and Indigenous Publishing, like Hegel's Africa, are Often Imagined to be Without a History. Indeed, in A Companion to the History of the Book, published by Wiley Blackwell in 2009 and heralded by Adrian Johns as particularly exemplary in that the editors “take the term book in a broad sense to include not only codex volumes and scrolls, but also periodicals, ephemera, and even ancient Babylonian clay tablets” (Review of Companion 782), no region of the global South gets a chapter to itself, and Africa gets only two entries in the index: in a one-sentence remark about Middle Eastern and North African Islamic book production before 1100 and in a parenthetical reference to slavery in a chapter on libraries that mentions colonization. Johns himself has written a huge work on “the book”—that is, about early modern Britain (Nature). In David Finkelstein and Alistair MacCleery's recently reprinted An Introduction to Book History, “the book” is unapologetically introduced as a Western form: the introduction makes it clear that the topic of the volume is overwhelmingly “Western European traditions of social communication through writing …” (30). The definite article is fearless in book history and occludes the history and travels of the book elsewhere, reinstalling it, time after time, in the North Atlantic regions that seem to be its natural habitat.

Introduction to AJS Review Symposium: The Jewish Book: Views and Questions

AJS Review ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-357
Author(s):  
Adam Shear
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Book History ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
History Of ◽  
Written Word ◽  
The Impact

In the last several decades, the study of reading, writing, and publishing has emerged as a lively field of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Historians and literary scholars have engaged with a number of questions about the impact of changes in technology on reading practices and particularly on the relationship between new technologies of reading and writing and social, religious, and political change. The new field of the “history of the book,” merging aspects of social and intellectual history with the tools of analytical and descriptive bibliography, came to the fore in the second half of the twentieth century at the same time that the emergence of new forms of electronic media raised many questions for social scientists about the ways that technological change have affected aspects of human communication in our time. Meanwhile, while the field of book history emerged initially among early modernists interested in the impact of printing technology, the issues raised regarding authorship, publication, relations between orality and the written word, dissemination, and reception have enriched the study of earlier periods.

UNESCO and the Book in the Developing World

2014 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Brouillette
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Developing World ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Global History ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media System ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Developed World

This article establishes the importance of UNESCO’s role within the global history of the book. Its focus is the research on the book in the developing world that UNESCO sponsored in the 1960s and 1970s, and how that research supported claims that government should intervene in book and media industries in order to shift the disastrous imbalance in the global media system. It shows how these claims were undermined by the interests of the developed world and sidelined by the emerging discipline of book history.

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