Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback)

Many more people encountered newspapers, business press products or jobbing print than the glamorous books of the Enlightenment. This book looks at the way in which print effected a business revolution. Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England. The impact of non-book printing has been long neglected. A raft of jobbing work serviced commerce and finance while many more practical guides and more ephemeral pamphlets on trade and investment were read than the books that we now associate with the foundations of modern politicaleconomy. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late seventeenth century, was the increased separation of printers from bookseller-publishers, from the skilled artisan to the bookseller-financier who might have noprior training in the printing house but who took up the sale of publications as another commodity. This book examines the broader social relationship between publication and the practical conduct of trade; the book asks what itmeant to be 'published' and how print, text and image related to the involvement of script. The age of Enlightenment was an age of astonishing commercial and financial transformation offering printers and the business press new market opportunities. Print helped to effect a business revolution. The reliability, reputation, regularity, authority and familiarity of print increased trust and confidence and changed attitudes and behaviours. New modes of publication and the wide-ranging products of printing houses had huge implications for the way lives were managed, regulated and recorded. JAMES RAVEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	James Raven
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	348
ISBN-13:	978-1-84383-910-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Publishing industry Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-84383-910-5
Barcode:	9781843839101

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