The University of California Press : the early years, 1893-1953 / Albert Muto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muto, Albert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of California Press--History.

University of California Press.

University presses--California--Berkeley--History.

University presses.

Scholarly publishing--California--Berkeley--History.

Scholarly publishing.

University presses--History--California--Berkeley.

Scholarly publishing--History--California--Berkeley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 300 p. ) ill., [21] p. of plates ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : The Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1893, when the University of California was just twenty-five years old, its governing board took a bold step in voting the money to set up a publishing program for the works of its faculty. Like many of the American universities established in the late nineteenth century, California followed the German model of emphasizing original research among its faculty. But, then as now, commercial publishers were not prepared to publish the results, and so these early research universities began to publish for themselves. In the final quarter of the nineteenth century, Johns Hopkins, California, Chicago, and Columbia all began to publish. All four, in time, became scholarly publishers of consequence.In this book, published to commemorate the centennial of the University of California Press, Albert Muto chronicles the early history of the Press, from its beginnings as a printer of monographs by the University's own faculty to its emergence in the early 1950s as a full-fledged university press in the Oxbridge tradition.Profusely illustrated with archival photos and examples of early book design, this book gives us a new perspective on the history of publishing in the United States, and on the early years of the nation's largest public university.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The New American University and Its Press

CHAPTER 2 PUBLISHING BEGINS IN BERKELEY

CHAPTER 3 THE MONOGRAPH PRESS OF BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER

CHAPTER 4 THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE'S PRESS

CHAPTER 5 EARLY ATTEMPTS AT BOOK PUBLISHING

CHAPTER 6 THE REORGANIZATION OF 1933 Marriage of Printing and Publishing

CHAPTER 7 PUBLISHING IN THE FARQUHAR ERA Journals, Series, and Boob

CHAPTER 8 BOOK DESIGN The Farquhar Style

CHAPTER 9 WARTIME PUBLISHING, 1941-1945

CHAPTER 10 THE POSTWAR YEARS, 1946-1949 A Change of Direction

CHAPTER 11 THE PRINTING-PUBLISHING DISPUTE AND END OF THE MARRIAGE

CHAPTER 12 TRANSFORMING THE PRESS, 1949-1953

CHAPTER 13 EPILOGUE The Press in Later Years

APPENDIX 1 The Scientific Series Lincoln Constance

APPENDIX 2 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS

Index

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 1976).

"A Centennial book"--P.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-520-91227-6

0-585-07914-5

OCLC:

1419789661