Immigrant Publishers : The Impact of Expatriate Publishers in Britain and America in the 20th Century / Richard Abel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Richard, 1925- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.

Immigrants--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Publishers and publishing--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Summary:

"In the first third of the twentieth century, the publishing industry in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated firms. The British trade was the preserve of self-satisfied men entirely certain of their superiority in the world of letters; their counterparts in North America were blissfully unaware of development and trends outside their borders. In this unique historical analysis, Richard Abel and Gordon Graham show how publishing evolved post-World War II to embrace a different, more culturally inclusive, vision.Unfortunately, even among the learned classes, only a handful clearly understood either the nature or the likely consequences of the mounting geopolitical tensions that gripped pre-war Europe. The world was largely caught up in the ill-informed and unexamined but widely held smug and shallow belief that the huge price paid in "the war to end all wars" had purchased perpetual peace, a peace to be maintained by the numerous, post-war high-minded treaties ceremoniously signed thereafter.The history presented here has as its principals a handful of those who fled to the Anglo-Saxon shores in the pre-World War II era. The remainder made their way to Britain and the United States following that war. They brought an entirely new vision of and energetic pursuit of the cultural role of the book and journal in a society, a vision which was quickly adopted and naturalized by a perspicacious band of post-war native-born book people."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter Introduction: The Impact of European Expatriate Bookmen in the Book Trades of Britain and America

chapter Maurits Dekker and Eric Proskauer: A Synergy of Talent in Exile / Hendrik Edelman

chapter André Deutsch: The Great Persuader / Diana Athill

chapter Kurt Enoch: Paperback Pioneer / Gordon Graham

chapter Paul Hamlyn: “There Must Be Another Way.” / Philip Jarvis

chapter Walter J. Johnson and Kurt Jacoby: Academic Press / Edwin F. Beschler

chapter Walter J. Johnson and the Scholarly Reprint / Albert Henderson

chapter Andor Kraszna-Krausz: Pioneering Publisher in Photography / Jane Dorner

chapter Walter and Eva Neurath: Their Books Married Words with Pictures / Tom Rosenthal

chapter Robert Maxwell: Man of Dash and Determination, Champion of Dissemination / Albert Henderson

chapter Frederick A. Praeger: Apostle of Anti-Communism Who Built Two Publishing Houses / Hendrik Edelman

chapter Max Reinhardt: Shrewd Businessman, Publisher of Famous Authors / Euan Cameron

chapter George Weidenfeld: A Publisher of Inexhaustible Vitality and a Renowned International Figure / John Curtis

chapter Kurt Wolff and Jacques Schiffrin: Two Publishing Giants Start Over in America / Hendrik Edelman

chapter Other Immigrant Publishers of Note in America / Hendrik Edelman

chapter Epilogue: Migration and Transformation / Gordon Graham

chapter List of Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 21, 2017).

ISBN:

1-351-51349-4

0-203-78908-3

1-351-51348-6

9780203789087

OCLC:

1003855333