The Librarian's Atlas
€38.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780226854472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seth Kimmel |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.406 |
| Publishing Date | 05/09/2026 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €36.70 |
| Tax | €2.20 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €38.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge—now in paperback. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian’s Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco—close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps—Kimmel reveals how the booklover’s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.