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Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History,our local universities. Their task is to design and print a typographic assemblage using wood types from the Wai-te-ata Press collection. None of them have encountered letterpress before; their usual creative medium is the computer, though their tutors ensure they are also inducted into the foreign

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Publishing under the Yoke: A Short History of the Bulgarian Book from Paisy of Hilendar to Peyo Yavhe Balkan region are such as to complicate and embarrass any simplistic model of national identity. While Bulgaria is the oldest surviving named ‘country’ or ‘kingdom’ in Europe, with one of the oldest established national Churches (926 CE), it is yet one of its youngest nation states, its modern ‘r

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,“After the Old; yet as agreeable ... to the Newest”: British and American Almanacs in the Era of Amer read, but know of for its surprisingly “accurate” weather predictions. Today’s . is a nostalgic relic of what was a popular and lucrative genre in eighteenth-century print culture. Though they were big sellers in both America and Britain, almanacs on each side of the Atlantic had quite dissimilar

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,Origin and Growth of the White Fathers’ Press at Bukalasa, Uganda,elievers, transcending origin and place. European missionaries arriving in Africa in the nineteenth century were endeavouring to bring people of other tribes, languages, and races into the international community of the Christian Church. Within their own society, Africans who adhered to Christianity

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A New Demand for Old Texts: Philippine Metrical Romances in the Early Twentieth Century,ce are so common in the verse narratives that they are practically a convention of the genre in Philippine poetry. Filipino authors evidently took great liberties in presenting foreign characters, fantastic plots, and ‘exotic’ settings due, perhaps, to extravagant imaginations or, more likely, to li

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,Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series — A Publisher’s Memoir,ns, in its first quarter century, what Penguin Books had been to British readers in its first 25 years. It provided good serious reading at accessible prices for the rapidly emerging professional classes as the countries became independent. The colour orange for novels had been shamelessly copied fr

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,Outside the Nation(al): ‘South African’ Print and Book Cultures, and Global ‘text-scapes’,acter is marked increasingly by the traffic, transport, and displacement of representations, people, technologies, money, and ideas omits, it seems to me, a key ‘-scape’ of particular interes to students of print and text cultures: ‘.-scapes’.. While this might usefully be read into the Appaduraian