A History of the Book in Scotland 1880-2000

《苏格兰爱丁堡史，1880-2000》是一部重要学术著作的第四卷，将由爱丁堡大学出版社出版，该书将描绘苏格兰书在国内和国际背景下的历史。第四卷跟踪了这本书在苏格兰社会、政治和经济大变革时期的历史，并回答了与二十世纪苏格兰文本的生产、发行和接受有关的一些关键研究问题。这个项目是对苏格兰图书贸易、出版和印刷文化活动当代趋势的一次重大尝试，在新兴的图书史领域的标志-跨学科背景下框架结果。这一研究领域具有比人们有时意识到的更广泛的智力影响。《书史》是一个跨学科的研究领域，包括对识字和阅读实践的研究；出版商、作者、代理商和读者之间的关系；信息技术和不断发展的通信网络。这种研究的跨学科要求扩大了其重要性，超越了专门的历史学家和一般目录学领域，包括对其他学术领域具有重要意义的材料--如社会、政治和文化史、商业和知识史、国际技术创新史、材料和社会史。虽然拟议的项目将满足苏格兰文化学者的感受到的需求，但它也将对其他民族传统的学者具有巨大的价值，让人们深入了解苏格兰与英国、欧洲和“新世界”同行之间的图书贸易联系，并突出与20世纪散居海外的人、民族和跨民族身份以及苏格兰在全球化市场中的地位有关的问题。该项目超越传统学科边界的目标非常符合AHRC支持创新跨学科研究的承诺。

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, 1880-2000 is the fourth volume of a major scholarly work, to be published by Edinburgh University Press, which will chart the history of the Scottish book within national and international contexts. Volume 4 tracks the history of the book in Scotland during a period of great social, political and economic change, and answers some key research questions relating to the production, circulation and reception of Scottish texts in the twentieth century.This project represents a significant attempt to investigate contemporary trends in book trade, publishing and print culture activity in Scotland, framing the results within an interdisciplinary context that is the hallmark of the emerging field of Book History. This field of research has wider intellectual implications than is sometimes realised. 'Book History' is an interdisciplinary area of enquiry, encompassing research into literacy and reading practices; relaf1ons among publishers, authors, agents, and readers, information technology and evolving communication networks. The interdisciplinary demands of such research widen its importance beyond the specialist historian and the general field of bibliography, encompassing material of significance to other academic fields -such as social, political and cultural history, business and intellectual history, the history of International innovation in technology, material and social history. While the proposed project will meet a felt need amongst scholars of Scottish culture, it will also be of tremendous value to scholars of other national traditions, offering insight into book trade connections between Scotland and British, European and 'New World' counterparts, and highlighting matters related to twentieth century diasporas, national and trans-national identities and Scotland's place in a globalised marketplace. The project's aim of transcending traditional disciplinary borders well suits the AHRC's commitment to supporting innovative cross-disciplinary research.