Ami Ayalon

The Arabic Print Revolution

Cultural Production and Mass Readership

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Produktbeschreibung

Ayalon explores the birth of Arab printing, publishing, dissemination methods, and mass readership during the formative phase from 1800 to 1914.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781107149441
• ISBN-10: 1107149444
• Artikelnr.: 45154633

Autorenporträt

Ami Ayalon is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His scholarly interest focuses on the cultural and political history of Arabic-speaking societies in modern times, with a recent accent on the entry of printing into the Middle East and its wider implications. Ayalon has published numerous studies on these subjects, including Language and Change in the Arab Middle East (1987), The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History (1995) and Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948 (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: the problem of genesis
1. The formative phase of Arab printing - a historical overview
2. Printers and publishers
3. Books, journals, cartes de visite
4. Diffusion channels
5. Advancing circulation
6. Reading and readers
7. Reading in public
Conclusion
Bibliography.