A History of British Publishing or Non State Actors in World Politics

A History of British Publishing

Author: John Feather

This revised, restructured and thoroughly updated edition of a classic text covers six centuries of publishing in Britain, from before the invention of the printing press to the electronic era.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the publishing industry is being transformed by new technologies. Over 500 years ago, book production was revolutionised by an earlier new technology - the printing press and moveable type. A whole new industry grew out of this invention, an industry in which books were mass-produced for the first time. By the end of the 15th century printed books had largely ousted manuscripts in the commercial book trade; their predominance as an information medium was not seriously challenged until after the turn of the twentieth century, and even then only at the margins. The printed book became one of the symbols of Western culture.

In this book, John Feather considers not only the publishing industry itself, but also areas affecting and affected by it, from education, politics,technology and law, to religion, custom and class. He traces the history of the publishing of books in Britain, looking at how they were financed, produced and distributed. The key player in this complex process was always the publisher, although the person or firm which performed that function has undergone many changes of both name and substance since Caxton set up his press in Westminster Abbey. The successors of the small tradesman who produced books in early modern England are the great global corporations which dominate the media today. This book explains how that transformation has happened.
In this radically reworked second edition, John Feather places Britain, and herindustries, firmly in the global marketplace. With transatlantic competition and co-operation now standard, and with books marketed across the world via internet stores, Feather concludes by asking, how British is British publishing?

Table of Contents:

	List of figures	viii
	List of tables	x
	List of boxes	xi
	Illustration credits	xii
	Notes on contributors	xiii
	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgements	xxii
	List of terms and measurements	xxiv
Part 1	The Rise of New Urban Approaches
01	New urbanism(s) ascendant	3
02	Getting to (sub)urbanism	29
03	Theory in new urbanism	45
Part 2	New Urbanism(s) in Practice
04	New urbanism is born: the American experience	81
05	Revamping urbanism: the European experience	105
06	Modernizing urbanism: new urban Asia	131
07	Colonial urbanism: Canada signs on	151
Part 3	The Prospects for New Urbanism(s)
08	Reconciling new urbanism's theory and practice	175
09	The fate of new urbanism	203
	Notes	231
	Bibliography	235
	Index	265

See also: Comptabilité Intermédiaire

Non-State Actors in World Politics

Author: William Wallac

The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterized as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. Non-State Actors in World Politics analyzes a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organized crime.