Past into Print

"Past into Print" takes a fresh approach in looking at the creation of historical knowledge, exploring history books and periodicals as sites of conflict and compromise. Traditionally, scholars have been reluctant to acknowledge book-trade influences, either on the history they read and learn, or the histories they write and study. In this book the demands of commerce and of scholarship jostle with debates about patriotism and pedagogy. The human protagonists are historians and publishers, while the theoretical concerns lie with historiography and bibliography. Drawing on the lively correspondence found in publishers' archives, Leslie Howsam shows how mid-Victorian narrative certainties gave way to twentieth-century disciplinary anxieties.

ISBN	0712350276	DEWEY edition	DC22
ISBN13	9780712350273 (What's this?)	Pages	192
Publisher	The British Library Publishing Division	Published in	London
Imprint	The British Library Publishing Division	Height (mm)	244
Format	Hardback	Width (mm)	172
Publication date	01 May 2009	Academic level	General
DEWEY	070.50941

1	Every Schoolboy Knows: Publishing the Narrative of England's Liberty, 1850-1863	1
2	Quality and Profit: New Histories of England, 1863-1880	24
3	Breaking the Drowsy Spell of Narrative, 1880-1914	49
4	Historians and Publishers in an Age of War and Revolution, 1914-1929	76
5	Knowledge in the Marketplace, 1930-1950	100
	Epilogue: History, out of print	122
	Notes	129
	Chronology	155
	Bibliography	162
	Index	178

' - a welcome contribution to this fast developing field [of publishing history]' Iain Stevenson, Library & Information History

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The Publishing of History in Britain 1850-1950

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