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Beyond The Atlantic: British India, Book Circulation, And The Transmission Of Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century, Arthur Fraas Jul 2015

Beyond The Atlantic: British India, Book Circulation, And The Transmission Of Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century, Arthur Fraas

Arthur Mitchell Fraas

Scholars have long understood that in the eighteenth century, the publishing, reading, and book-buying communities of Europe and the Atlantic world were inextricably linked. In the English-speaking world, libraries and printers in both colonial North America and Great Britain served to disseminate and collect the rapidly accelerating stream of ideas in print that characterized the era. This talk will explore the need to expand this Atlantic view to include the growing world-wide movement of texts and readers in the eighteenth century and describe the little-studied flow of books and manuscripts between libraries, readers, and collectors in colonial South Asia and …


Mining And Visualizing Manuscript Provenance Data At A Large Scale, Arthur Fraas Nov 2014

Mining And Visualizing Manuscript Provenance Data At A Large Scale, Arthur Fraas

Arthur Mitchell Fraas

This presentation uses the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts to suggest ways in which large amounts of manuscript provenance data can be visualized.


Linking Archival Sources In The 2013 American Historical Review, Arthur Fraas Dec 2013

Linking Archival Sources In The 2013 American Historical Review, Arthur Fraas

Arthur Mitchell Fraas

An analysis of archival sources used by authors in the 2013 American Historical Review.