The question this is a reply to is something I know we have experts here on.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Publishing/printing history of the West Indies? Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:51:01 +0000 From: David Finkelstein d.finkelstein@dundee.ac.uk Reply-To: sharp-l@list.indiana.edu To: sharp-l@list.indiana.edu sharp-l@list.indiana.edu
Although not very detailed, a useful place to start in terms of gauging where printing presses were in action and likely to play key roles in West Indies printing history is this directory of British caribbean newspapers:
Howard S Pactor, compiler, /Colonial British Caribbean Newspaper: A Bibliography and Directory, Greenwood Press, 1990./ / / Best wishes
David
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Editorial Board, /Media History /http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmeh20/current#.U2n_V15zRss
Editorial Board, /Victorian Periodicals Review/ http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_periodicals_review/
Editorial Board, /B//ook Practices and Textual Itineraries/ book series, Presse Universitaire de Nancy http://idea-udl.org/book-practices-and-textual-itineraries/
Editorial Board, /Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace/ series, Pickering and Chatto http://www.pickeringchatto.com/series/53-literary-texts-and-the-popular-mark...
On 11/11/2014 11:43, "Rayner, Samantha" <s.rayner@ucl.ac.uk mailto:s.rayner@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
Would anyone be able to help suggest some resources for a student of mine who wants to research the history of printing/ publishing in the West Indies, please?
I'd be very grateful for any aid - thank you!
Samantha
/Dr Samantha J. Rayner, Director of the Centre for Publishing, Department of Information Studies, University College London, Foster Court, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT// Tel: 020 3108 1139020 3108 1139/
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