TY - JOUR
T1 - Arab booksellers and bookshops in the age of printing, 1850-1914
AU - Ayalon, Ami
N1 - Funding Information:
Research for this study was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 473/05), which the author acknowledges with gratitude. The author is also grateful to the two anonymous British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies reviewers for their most helpful comments.
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - The emergence of massive printing in the Arab Middle East in the nineteenth century entailed a multiple set of changes. As well as the production of written texts in unprecedented quantities and the rise of a big reading public, that historic shift also gave birth to a range of diffusion channels-from bookshops to public libraries and from newspaper agents to reading clubs-which carried the printed works to their audiences. This article examines a small section of this scene: the growth, spreading and changing characteristics of book dealerships and bookshops in the Arab Ottoman provinces during the formative half-century prior to World War I. Exploring this mechanism casts light on the nature and pace of printing assimilation in the region, projecting it as a rather dramatic makeover.
AB - The emergence of massive printing in the Arab Middle East in the nineteenth century entailed a multiple set of changes. As well as the production of written texts in unprecedented quantities and the rise of a big reading public, that historic shift also gave birth to a range of diffusion channels-from bookshops to public libraries and from newspaper agents to reading clubs-which carried the printed works to their audiences. This article examines a small section of this scene: the growth, spreading and changing characteristics of book dealerships and bookshops in the Arab Ottoman provinces during the formative half-century prior to World War I. Exploring this mechanism casts light on the nature and pace of printing assimilation in the region, projecting it as a rather dramatic makeover.
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U2 - 10.1080/13530191003661146
DO - 10.1080/13530191003661146
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AN - SCOPUS:77951904770
SN - 1353-0194
VL - 37
SP - 73
EP - 93
JO - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
JF - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
IS - 1
ER -