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Author:   Aileen Fyfe
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780226276519

ISBN 10:   0226276511
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   10 February 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Steam-Powered Knowledge provides a fresh historical vision of book learning in transatlantic transit before the era of oceanic telecommunications. Mapping the coevolution of the Chambers publishing house with the rise of the steam-powered press, Fyfe's original interpretation offers readers a welcome new grasp of how print culture became central to the globalization of knowledge. --Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds<br><br><br><br>--Graeme Gooday

Steam-Powered Knowledge provides an excellent account of the publishing activities of William and Robert Chambers of Edinburgh, drawing extensively on that firm's surviving business archives and publications. Writing in a clear and lively manner, Aileen Fyfe makes a strong case for the importance of the firm as a pioneer in the use of industrial methods of book production and as a crusader for the use of print for the instruction of the working classes. (Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin)

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Aileen Fyfe is a lecturer in modern British history at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Science and Salvation and coeditor of Science in the Marketplace, both published by the University of Chicago Press, and the editor of Science for Children.

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