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Beyond The Atlantic: British India, Book Circulation, And The Transmission Of Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century, Arthur Fraas
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
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.
Mapping Books, Arthur Fraas
Mapping Books, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
Series of pieces placing book history in geographic context
Primary Sources At A Distance: Researching Indian Colonial Law, Arthur Fraas
Primary Sources At A Distance: Researching Indian Colonial Law, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
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Unique At Penn, Arthur Fraas
Unique At Penn, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
Blog highlighting unique items from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Readers, Scribes, And Collectors: The Dissemination Of Legal Knowledge In Eighteenth-Century British South Asia, Arthur Mitchell Fraas
Readers, Scribes, And Collectors: The Dissemination Of Legal Knowledge In Eighteenth-Century British South Asia, Arthur Mitchell Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
This draft paper - first presented at the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual conference in 2012 - looks at the circulation of legal knowledge in print and manuscript in eighteenth-century British India.
The Royal College Of Physicians Survey Of Savannah, 1829, Arthur Mitchell Fraas
The Royal College Of Physicians Survey Of Savannah, 1829, Arthur Mitchell Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
This article presents the annotated text of an 1829 survey of the state of medicine and health in Savannah Georgia as completed by the British consul in that city.