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Pedro Rueda Ramírez, Agnes Gehbald. A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment., The American Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 1, March 2025, Pages 360–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae499
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A Colonial Book Market is a study of great interest that deals with printed cultural consumption in Peru during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a well-conceived and solidly developed study that begins with pertinent questions about the impact of the world of books, seeking to answer how the colonial book market was shaped. It is a venture of remarkable interest (and some risk), but the author manages to find the common thread in a social history of the book that addresses the book as a material object in everyday life. In some previous studies, other authors have partially addressed some of these issues. We have studies on the supply circuit of imports in the Hispanic Atlantic, such as Carlos A. González Sánchez’s work, and a study by Pedro Guibovich on the arrival of prohibited books and the production of Lima’s printing presses, but these aspects had not been connected in Peru. Other recent studies have dealt with relations with the British and French empires, such as Francesco A. Morriello’s Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World (2023). Agnes Gehbald’s book deals with global networks of Atlantic cultural supply and is very attentive to the practices, access, and use of print, both in Lima and in the Peruvian viceroyalty.
