A skeptic among scholars : August Frugé on university publishing /

When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frugé, August, 1909-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
Temas:
Frugé, August, > 1909-
Frugé, August, > 1909-2004.
University of California Press > History.
University of California Press.
1900-1999
University presses > California > Berkeley > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > California > Berkeley > Biography.
Presses universitaires > Californie > Berkeley > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Publishing.
Publishers and publishing.
University presses.
California > Berkeley.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Fin de Siecle: End and Beginning
  • 2. Berkeley in the 1950s: The Place and How I Came to Be There
  • 3. The University Press in the 1940s: Recto and Verso
  • 4. An Unavoidable Conflict
  • 5. How We Joined the Editorial Committee
  • 6. A Kind of Metamorphosis
  • 7. Where to Look for Books: Athens in Berkeley
  • 8. Looking to the South: Many Americas
  • 9. Looking West to the East: Pel and the Asian Books
  • 10. Ishi, Don Juan, and the Anthropologists: A Tale of Two Best-Sellers
  • 11. Hollywood and Berkeley: Getting into the Film Business
  • 12. London, 1660 and 1960: The Coded Words of Sam Pepys
  • 13. Nevada in the 1860s: Sam Clemens
  • 14. In Any Language but English: Poetry at the Press
  • 15. The Poetry-Hating Director
  • 16. A Few Pounds of Lit Crit
  • 17. Mega Biblion: Exposing the Press to Art History
  • 18. The Book as Artifact: Design and Printing
  • 19. Anybody Can Write a Book, but ...
  • 20. The Bird That Was Overdue for Evolution: And Other Tales of the Financial Wars
  • 21. Waiting for the God from the Machine
  • 22. Earthquakes and Endings
  • Addenda: Alternative Views
  • I. God, Swahili, Bandicoots, and Euphoria / Hugh Kenner
  • II. Publishing The Plan of St. Gall / James H. Clark.

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