D. R. Woolf

Reading History in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Fletcher, Anthony; Guy, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780521023344
• ISBN-10: 0521023343
• Artikelnr.: 22087003

Autorenporträt

Daniel Woolf is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada where he has also served as Vice-Chancellor and Principal since 2009. He previously held professorial and administrative posts at the University of Alberta (2002-2009), McMaster University (1999-2002) and Dalhousie University (1987-1999). He holds a BA from Queen's University and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. Professor Woolf is the author or editor of several books and many scholarly articles and book chapters. He has published A Global History of History with Cambridge University Press and is also general editor of the five-volume Oxford History of Historical Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The death of the chronicle
2. The contexts and purposes of history reading
3. The ownership of historical works
4. Borrowing and lending
5. Clio bound and unbound
6. Marketing history
Conclusion
Appendix A: A bookseller's inventory, c. 1730
Appendix B: History by auction: auction sale catalogues 1686-1700.