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The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence - Education and Knowledge Transmission in Transcontinental Perspective (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence - Education and Knowledge Transmission in Transcontinental Perspective (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This title is a study of the export of books from Britain to
early-independent Spanish America, which considers all phases of
production, distribution, reading and re-writing of British books
in the region, and explores the role that these works played in the
formation of national identities in the new countries. Analysing in
particular the publishing house of Rudolph Ackermann, which
dominated the export of British books in Spanish to the former
colonies in the 1820s, it discusses the ways in which the printed
form of these publications affected the knowledge conveyed by them.
early-independent Spanish America and the trends in the import of
European books in the region, the author examines the operation of
Ackermann's publishing enterprise. She shows how the collaborative
nature of this enterprise, involving a number of Spanish American
diplomats as sponsors and Spanish exiles as writers and
translators, shaped the characteristics of its publications, and
how the notion of useful knowledge conveyed by them was deployed in
the service of both commercial and educational concerns. and
retailing in Spanish America in the 1820s are also analysed, as is
the way in which the significance of the knowledge transmitted by
those books shifted in the course of their production and
distribution. The author examines how the question-and answer form
of Ackermann's textbooks constrained both publishers and writers
and oriented their readers' relation with the texts. She then looks
at the various ways in which foreign knowledge was appropriated in
the construction of individual, social, national, and continental
identities; this is done through the study of a number of
individual reading experiences and through the analysis of the
editions and adaptations of Ackermann's textbooks during the 19th
century. be of interest both to book historians and to Latin
American scholars, as well as to historians of education,
historians of science, and scholars interested in processes of
internationalisation, transmission, and appropriation of knowledge.
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