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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Stevenson, Iain, Ph. D. Book makers. London : The British Library, 2010 (OCoLC)742344680 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Iain Stevenson, Ph. D. |
ISBN: | 9780712309615 0712309616 |
OCLC Number: | 457149307 |
Description: | xviii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The Magna Carta of the book trade : the beginning of modern publishing -- Books by the million : publishing and the First World War -- Books fit for heroes : reconstruction and renewal in British book publishing between the Armistice and the Great Depression -- The penguins are coming! : British publishing in the 1930's -- Winning on the book front : British book publishing in the Second World War and its aftermath -- A tonic for the nation : British publishing in the 1950's -- From the end of the Chatterley ban to the Beatles' last LP : British publishing in the 1960s -- No more gentlemen : British book publishing in the 1970's -- The end of the affair : British publishing deregulated, 1980-95. |
Responsibility: | Iain Stevenson. |
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Abstract:
A general survey of British publishing as a history over the twentieth century. It aims to look at how publishing companies and their owners and staffs were organised and how their output responded to the wider social, economic and cultural trends of the period.
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- Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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- Great Britain.
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