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| Thursday, October 22, 2015 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | External Event, Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room History Department Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2098 |
The transfer of knowledge during the Enlightenment is a well-established research field that has taught us much about the circulation and reception of ideas. Thousands of books crossed borders, and the business of translation transformed the cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Central Europe. But what about the nineteenth century? In absolute numbers, German publishers imported and translated far more books than in the eighteenth century, yet the scholarship on this “second surge” remains in its infancy. Examining the penetration of western texts into German markets, this paper focuses on the publishers who brokered this cultural exchange. Their strategies to market themes of materialism and constitutionalism as mass print for popular audiences call attention to the suffusion of Atlantic World political discourse into Central Europe after 1820.
James M. Brophy is the Francis H. Squire Professor of History at the University of Delaware. He has written Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 1830-1870 (1998) and Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850 (2007) as well as co-edited Perspectives from the Past: Sources in Western Civilization (6th ed., 2015). In addition, he has published numerous essays on nineteenth-century Europe, which have appeared in such journals as Past & Present, Journal of Modern History, and Historische Zeitschrift. He is currently working on Markets of Knowledge: Publishers and Politics in Central Europe, 1770-1870, a book that examines German publishers as cultural brokers, political actors, and entrepreneurs of print.
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