This collection of published papers on the development of the publishing cycle from author to reader includes work by many of the leading authorities on the his

This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-c

The first history of the West End of London, showing how the nineteenth-century growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, cas

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This is the first comprehensive survey of the economic development of the world's first great industrial metropolis. Modern theories of urban economics are used