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Date: 28-Oct-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: A Cultural History of Translation: D’hulst (ed.) (2025)


Title: A Cultural History of Translation
Subtitle: Volumes 1-6
Series Title: The Cultural Histories Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-history-of-translation-9781350171800/

Editor(s): Lieven D’hulst

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350171800, Price: £395.00

Abstract:

How has our relationship with translation changed for different
cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art
and religion?
In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions are
addressed by 143 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme
applied to a period in history. Across six volumes they illustrate
broad trends and nuances in the culture of translation in Western
culture from antiquity to the present.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to
make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical
across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a
specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across
history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. Classical Societies (500 BCE to 500 CE); 2.
Postclassical Era (600 to 1100); 3. Age of Cross-Cultural Interaction
(1100 to 1600); 4. Construction of the Global World (1600 to 1800); 5.
Emergence of the Modern World (1800 to 1900); 6. Modern and
Contemporary World (1900 to the present). Themes (and chapter titles)
are: translators; global views; geographies; knowledges; literature;
other cultural practices; sciences; media and intermediality.
The page extent for the pack is approximately 1700pp. Each volume
opens with notes on contributors and an introduction and concludes
with notes, bibliography, and an index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Translation is part of The Cultural Histories
Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for
libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase
and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully
searchable digital library available to institutions by annual
subscription or on perpetual access. See
www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com for further information or to access
content.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Translation




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