Books in the Studies in Book and Print Culture series

No Trespassing is essential reading for all who care about culture and the future regulatory structures of access to it.

A groundbreaking study, Dominion and Agency is an important exploration of the legal and economic structures that were instrumental in the formation of today's Canadian literary culture.

The World in Venice shows how Venetian identity came to be envisioned within the growing global context that print constructed for it.

Magazines & the Making of Mass Culture in Japan is a cultural history explaining the birth and early mechanisms of mass culture in 20th Century Japan through an examination of two family magazines, Kingu (King) and Ie no hikari (Light of the Home).

Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley's authorship a secret while also trying to exploit the public interest.

Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials.

The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of book and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.

Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.

North America's market for religious books and periodicals shaped the lives of Canadian Methodists in profound and enduring ways, even helping to prepare the way for the widespread use of American books among Upper Canadians more generally.

By bringing together academic experts and experienced practitioners, including editorial specialists, scholarly publishing professionals, and designers, Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text offers indispensable insight into the past and future of academic communication.

In tracing the efforts of a large number of artists to disrupt the hegemony of high culture, Bart Beaty raises important questions about cultural value and its place as an important structuring element in contemporary social processes.

As a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until now, a blind spot in the history of writing practices.