A World of Letters
Yale University Press 1908-2008
Contents
Preface.........................................ix
ONE The Formative Decades......................1
TWO The Middle Years...........................71
THREE Enriching the Mix........................121
FOUR A Press in Transition.....................167
Notes...........................................197
Centennial Highlights...........................209
Chapter One
The Formative Decades
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS IS A CURIOUS
form of publishing enterprise that has
emerged globally by way of two strikingly
different sets of circumstances. Certainly
the most venerable operations are to be
found in the United Kingdom at Oxford
and Cambridge Universities, where both institutions maintain
publishing enterprises with pedigrees that extend back
more than half a millennium, each established around the
time that the earliest printing shops were being set up in
England by William Caxton and his followers. First to issue
a book under its name was Oxford, with the releas ... read full excerpt from World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 ebook
