The history of the book as a field of study within the humanities: A retrospect, and a prospect by Graham Shaw
Ian Willison
This article outlines the development of history book not only as an academic discipline in its own right but a field study critical, potentially central, importance for advancement humanities general. The helps revise earlier relative marginalisation cultural vis-à-vis political history. publication 1958 L’apparition du livre by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin has been followed series multivolume, multi-authored national histories libraries, first France, then Britain, United States elsewhere. is having considerable influence many areas historical investigation, such general history, literary science religion. With ‘Digital Revolution’, now converging with studies other media and, together growth postcolonial/post-imperial general, offers prospect balanced nuanced approach within global academy to understanding world’s past, present future.
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