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Book SynopsisPast into Print explores history books and periodicals as sites of conflict and compromise in order to question how and why historical knowledge is created.
Trade Review'Howsam provides not only a better and more rounded understanding of the development of British history as a practice and discipline, it opens up a realm of issues, themes, and questions that ought to be explored by all modern historians when they think about what they do and have done.' -- Stephen Heathorn Canadian Journal of History, vol45: Autumn2010
Table of ContentsPreface: Narrative and Discipline Chapter 1. Every Schoolboy Knows: Publishing the Narrative of England's Liberty, 1850-1863 The Life Cyel of the History-Book Reader The Agency of the Publisher Tension between Professional and Popular Accounts of the Past History Books as Material Objects Nursery Histories and Their Competition New Editions of Old Titles Chapter 2. Quality and Profit: New Histories of England, 1863-1880 Alexander MacMillan and the Historians The Clarendon Press (Oxford) and the Historians The Pitt Press (Cambridge) and the Historians Chapter 3. Breaking the Drowsy Spell of Narrative, 1880-1914 Seeley and the Reading Public Browning and the Publishers New Formats for History: Periodicals and Series Acton and the Cambridge Modern History New Blood at Oxford Chapter 4. Historians and Publishers in an Age of War and Revolution, 1914-1929 Revisions and Reiterations Ernest Barker at Oxford Belligerents and Ex-Belligerents, A Series Imagining an Oxford History of England More Histories at Cambridge The Cambridge Collaborative Histories The Power Sisters and Cambridge Histories for Children London Publishers 1914-1929 Chapter 5. Knowledge in the Marketplace, 1930-1950 The Cambridge Collaborative Histories History from the Oxford University Press History Books: Text, Object, Context Epilogue: History, Out of Print
