Books Without Borders, Volume 1

JAMES CURREY is Chairman of James Currey Publishers, Oxford, UK. ROBERT FRASER is Senior Research Fellow in Literature, Open University, UK. MATTHEW GIBSON is Lecturer in Literature, University of Surrey, UK. MARY HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, University of Southampton, UK. PATRICIA MAY B. JURILLA is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines, Diliman. ROSHNI MOONEERAM is Lecturer in English, University of Central England, UK. FATHER IVAN PAGE is general archivist of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, Rome, Italy. LYNDA PRESCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Staff Tutor in Arts, Open University, UK. LILY SANTORO is a PhD candidate in American History, University of Delaware, USA. SYDNEY J SHEP is Senior Lecturer in Print & Book Culture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. ANA CLAUDIA SURIANI DA SILVA holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, UK. ANDREW VAN DER VLIES is Lecturer in Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and Theory, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, UK.

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.