Agnes Gehbald
postdoc @uniBern
#bookhistory author of A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (CUP 2024) bit.ly/3NEXFbA
#migrationhistory: return migration from the Americas
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- My book is now out in paperback! 📘 A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment bit.ly/3NEXFbA For anyone researching bookbinding, this is a development worth noting; and for those studying book prices: use the discount code LAHIS26
- From the second half of the 18th century onward, workshops in Lima and transoceanic imports supplied the market with unprecedented quantities of print publications. By analysing the materiality of the books themselves, I assesses the meaning of print culture in the everyday lives of the viceroyalty.
- Reposted by Agnes GehbaldCall for papers 7th Conference on the History of Publishing: Book Censorship and Prohibitions in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds, June, 17–19, 2026 (Barcelona)
- Reposted by Agnes GehbaldTo “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
- Since it’s an online event: Tomorrow, I’ll be joining the Online Enlightenment Club to discuss ‘Beyond Voltaire: A Community of Readers across the Atlantic’.
- Reposted by Agnes GehbaldExhibition review: Agnes Gehbald paints in her review an impressive picture of the art-science exhibition «Naming Natures - Natural History and Colonial Legacy», currently on display in Neuchâtel: www.infoclio.ch/de/node/1901...
- Reposted by Agnes GehbaldOur Special Issue "Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900" in the journal Comparativ, co-edited by @agnesgehbald.bsky.social, Philipp Horn and me is online! With a coda by @sfahrenthold.bsky.social : www.comparativ.net/v2/issue/vie...
- Reposted by Agnes GehbaldThis Friday on port cities as points of passage! See more in the programme: www.hist.unibe.ch/e11168/e5169... With @agnesgehbald.bsky.social
- 1. Professorin: 1909 war die Philosophin Anna Tumarkin an der Universität Bern weltweit die erste Frau, die zur Professorin ernannt wurde. #unibern Festakt heute Abend und Ausstellungseröffnung zu ihrem 150. Geburtstag www.srf.ch/kultur/gesel...
- New article: “Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press” #BookHistory #Printing The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past. dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...
- About the scandal surrounding Tadeo López’ claim in 1813 to have invented type casting. Offers a unique insight into the craft in late colonial Lima—major printing hub—during a historic moment of upheaval in the final decade of Spanish rule (illustration @jcblibrary.bsky.social).
- Long time in the making, now finally out. DM if you do not have access!
- Reposted by Agnes GehbaldSo @agnesgehbald.bsky.social and me will publish an article titled "Paper Regimes of the Publishing World: A Bird’s Eye View on the Materiality of Global Book History" in the journal Globalgeschichte / Global History, volume 3.2 (2025). More news soon #GlobalBookHistory #GlobalHistory #Paperhistory
- New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...
- This volume proposes a new and radically inclusive approach to the study of the book by using gender as a tool of analysis. Exploring gender as a methodology rather than a subject in book history. Edited by @ewatson.bsky.social and Jessica Farrell-Jobst brill.com/edcollbook/t...
- Reposted by Agnes GehbaldNeuerscheinung: Band 64 des Archivs für Sozialgeschichte #AfS mit dem Rahmenthema "Migration in der Moderne. Wege – Orte – Erfahrungen" ist nun erschienen. Die Einleitung von Friedrich Lenger ist hier abrufbar [PDF]: library.fes.de/pdf-f...
