Introduction: book geography, book history / Miles Ogborn and Charles W.J. Withers -- Geographies of production -- The amusements of posterity: print against empire in late eighteenth-century Bengal / Miles Ogborn -- Steam and the landscape of knowledge: W. & R. Chambers in the 1830s-1850s / Aileen Fyfe -- Construing the spaces of print culture: book historians' visualization preferences / Fiona A. Black -- Geographies of circulation -- "Per le piaze & sopra il ponte": reconstructing the geography of popular print in sixteenth-century Venice / Rosa Salzberg -- The counting house library: creating mercantile knowledge in the age of sail / Deryck W. Holdsworth -- Printing posterity: editing varenius and the construction of geography's history / Robert J. Mayhew -- Geographies of reception -- Geography, enlightenment and the book: authorship and audience in Mungo Park's African texts / Charles W.J. Withers -- Books, geography and denmark's colonial undertaking in West Africa, 1790-1850 / Daniel Hopkins -- Volney's tableau, medical geography and books on the frontier / Michael L. Dorn -- Reading the messy reception of influences of geographic environment / Innes M. Keighren
Summary
While it is divided into three main sections, this book makes clear that the relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically), and the reception of and reaction to books are complex
