Research Catalog

Title

Publishing in the First World War : essays in book history / edited by Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed.

Publication

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Hammond, Mary, 1960-
• Towheed, Shafquat, 1973-

Description

xiv, 241 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• World War, 1914-1918 > Propaganda
• World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war
• Publishers and publishing > History > 20th century
• Soldiers' writings > Publishing > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed -- Pt. 1. Profit and patriotism. For country, conscience and commerce: publishers and publishing, 1914-18 / Jane Potter -- 'No such bookselling has ever before taken place in this country': propaganda and the wartime distribution practices of W.H. Smith & Son / Stephen Colclough -- Translating peace: pacifist publishing and the transmission of foreign texts / Grace Brockington -- pt. II. Reading and national consciousness. Sepoys, sahibs and the babus: India, the Great War and two colonial journals / Santanu Das -- The battle of the books: supplying prisoners of war / Rainer Pöppinghege -- Australian soldiers and the world of print during the Great War / Amanda Laugesen -- pt. III. Writing the trenches. The tuition of manhood: 'Sapper's' war stories and the literature of war / Jessic Meyer -- British Army trench journals and a geography of identity / John Pegum -- 'A new and vital moral factor': cartoon book publishing in Britain during the First World War / Nicholas Hiley -- pt. IV. Enlisted at home. Translating propaganda: John Buchan's writing during the First World War / Kate Macdonald -- Making a text the Fordian way: Between St. Dennis and St. George, propaganda and the First World War / Sara Haslam -- Depicting the war on the Western Front: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the publication of The British campaign in France and Flanders / Keith Grieves.

ISBN

• 9780230500761 (hbk.)
• 0230500765 (hbk.)

OCLC

• ocm82671674
• 82671674
• SCSB-5357438

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries