Introduction; 1. The death of the chronicle; 2. The contexts and purposes of history reading; 3. The ownership of historical works; 4. Borrowing and lending; 5. Clio bound and unbound; 6. Marketing history; Conclusion; Appendix A: A bookseller's inventory, c. 1730; Appendix B: History by auction: auction sale catalogues 1686–1700.
A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.
Daniel Woolf is Professor of History at the University of Alberta where he has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts since 2002. He previously taught at McMaster University (1999-2002) and Dalhousie University (1987-1999). He is the author or editor of seven books and many scholarly articles and book chapters and is currently at work on a history of historical writing for Cambridge University Press.
'D. R. Woolf's excellent new book … combining wide-ranging archival research with imaginative ingenuity.' Kevin Sharpe, The Times Literary Supplement
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