Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988

Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781474241281
ISBN-13 : 147424128X
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Synopsis Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988 by : Richard Leslie Hills

This short history tells the story of five hundred years of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing in Britain, through the major developments of the Industrial Revolution, up to the technological advances which have made possible the enormous high-speed paper machines of the present day.

Paper and the British Empire

Paper and the British Empire
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9781000337662
ISBN-13 : 1000337669
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Paper and the British Empire by : Timo Särkkä

Paper and the British Empire examines the evolution of the paper industry within British organisational frameworks and highlights the role of the Empire as a market and business-making area in a world of shrinking commerce and rising trade barriers. Drawing on a valuable range of primary sources, this book covers the period 1861–1960 and examines events from the establishment of free trade backed by the gold standard to Britain’s membership of the European Free Trade Association. In the field of the paper industry, the speed and intensity of the industrialisation process around the globe have been shaped by a wide variety of variables, including the surrounding institutional framework; entrepreneurial and organisational strategies; the cost and accessibility of transport; and the availability of capital, knowledge, energy resources, and technology. The supply of papermaking raw materials has also been key and has historically been the most important determinant for geographical location and dominance. The research in this work focuses on the roles played by such variants, on the one hand, and demand characteristics on the other. In particular, it considers developments connected to a quest for Empire-grown raw materials in order to tackle the problem of the lack of indigenous raw materials and the resulting dependence on Scandinavian wood pulp imports. This text is of considerable interest to advanced students and researchers in economic history, business history, and the paper industry, and will also be useful to organisations working within the pulp and paper industries.

The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬–2050

The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬–2050
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9789400754317
ISBN-13 : 9400754310
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Synopsis The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬–2050 by : Juha-Antti Lamberg

This book presents an historical analysis of the global paper industry evolution from a comparative perspective. At the centre are 16 producing countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, the USA, Germany, Canada, Japan, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Russia). A comparative study of the paper industry evolution can achieve the following important research objectives. First, we can identify the country specific historical features of paper industry evolution and compare them to the general business trends explicable by existing theoretical knowledge. Second, we can identify and isolate the factors causing both the rise and fall of industrial populations. Third, a shared research agenda can produce an intensive analysis of global industry dynamics. Finally, an extended research period of 250 years can identify what is truly unique in the paper industry evolution and the extent to which it took the same path as other important manufacturing industries.

Waste Paper in Early Modern England

Waste Paper in Early Modern England
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780198882701
ISBN-13 : 019888270X
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Waste Paper in Early Modern England by : Anna Reynolds

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets.

Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry

Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780521581974
ISBN-13 : 0521581974
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry by : Gary Bryan Magee

This pioneering 1997 study examines the economic development of the British paper industry between 1860 and 1914 - an era in which it is often claimed that the origins of Britain's relative economic decline are first witnessed. For paper-making, this was also a period in which an array of important new forces, including inter alia the development of new raw materials and the move to ever larger scales of production, came on the scene. Gary Bryan Magee looks at the effect of these changes and assesses how effectively the industry coped with the new pressures, drawing upon an extensive range of quantitative and archival sources from Britain, America, and other countries. Along the way, Dr Magee addresses issues central to the understanding of industrial competitiveness, such as technological change, entrepreneurship, productivity, trade policy, and industrial relations.

Technological Transformation in the Global Pulp and Paper Industry 1800–2018

Technological Transformation in the Global Pulp and Paper Industry 1800–2018
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9783319949628
ISBN-13 : 3319949624
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Technological Transformation in the Global Pulp and Paper Industry 1800–2018 by : Timo Särkkä

This contributed volume provides 11 illustrative case studies of technological transformation in the global pulp and paper industry from the inception of mechanical papermaking in early nineteenth century Europe until its recent developments in today’s business environment with rapidly changing market dynamics and consumer behaviour. It deals with the relationships between technology transfer, technology leadership, raw material dependence, and product variety on a global scale. The study itemises the main drivers in technology transfer that affected this process, including the availability of technology, knowledge, investments and raw materials on the one hand, and demand characteristics on the other hand, within regional, national and transnational organisational frameworks. The volume is intended as a basic introduction to the history of papermaking technology, and it is aimed at students and teachers as course material and as a handbook for professionals working in either industry, research centres or universities. It caters to graduate audiences in forestry, business, technical sciences, and history.

Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History

Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 9781503639393
ISBN-13 : 1503639398
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History by : Martin Paul Eve

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital space, and traces their history as they interact with physical cultures. Eve posits that digital-textual metaphors move through three life phases. Initially they are descriptive. Then they encounter a moment of fracture or rupture. Finally, they go on to have a prescriptive life of their own that conditions future possibilities for our text environments—even when the metaphors have become untethered from their original intent. Why is "whitespace" white? Was the digital page always a foregone conclusion? Over a series of theses, Eve addresses these and other questions in order to understand the moments when digital-textual metaphors break and to show us how it is that our textual softwares become locked into paradigms that no longer make sense. Contributing to book history, literary studies, new media studies, and material textual studies, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History provides generative insights into the metaphors that define our digital worlds.

Working with Paper

Working with Paper
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780822986805
ISBN-13 : 0822986809
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Synopsis Working with Paper by : Carla Bittel

Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologies, considering how notions of gender impacted paper practices and in turn how paper may have structured knowledge about gender. Through a series of dynamic investigations covering Europe and North America and spanning the early modern period to the twentieth century, this volume breaks new ground by examining material histories of paper and the gendered worlds that made them. Contributors explore diverse uses of paper—from healing to phrenological analysis to model making to data processing—which often occurred in highly gendered, yet seemingly divergent spaces, such as laboratories and kitchens, court rooms and boutiques, ladies’ chambers and artisanal workshops, foundling houses and colonial hospitals, and college gymnasiums and state office buildings. Together, they reveal how notions of masculinity and femininity became embedded in and expressed through the materials of daily life. Working with Paper uncovers the intricate negotiations of power and difference underlying epistemic practices, forging a material history of knowledge in which quotidian and scholarly practices are intimately linked.

The Myth of Print Culture

The Myth of Print Culture
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0802087752
ISBN-13 : 9780802087751
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Myth of Print Culture by : Joseph A. Dane

The Myth of Print Culture is a critique of bibliographical and editorial method, focusing on the disparity between levels of material evidence (unique and singular) and levels of text (abstract and reproducible). It demonstrates how the particulars of evidence are manipulated in standard scholarly arguments by the higher levels of textuality they are intended to support. The individual studies in the book focus on a range of problems: basic definitions of what a book is; statistical assumptions; and editorial methods used to define and collate the presumably basic unit of 'variant.' This work differs from other recent studies in print culture in its emphasis on fifteenth-century books and its insistence that the problems encountered in that historical milieu (problems as basic as cataloguing errors) are the same as problems encountered in other areas of literary criticism. The difficulties in the simplest of cataloguing decisions, argues Joseph Dane, tend to repeat themselves at all levels of bibliographical, editorial, and literary history.

Handbook of Polymers in Paper Conservation

Handbook of Polymers in Paper Conservation
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Publisher : Smithers Rapra
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9781847355805
ISBN-13 : 1847355803
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Synopsis Handbook of Polymers in Paper Conservation by : Elisabetta Princi

This book describes the latest developments in paper conservation by using polymeric materials. A short introduction on polymer chemistry is given to highlight the polymer characteristics and properties. The book is then dedicated to the conservative problems and issues in the field of paper artworks. This practical book identifies the importance of each type of polymer, related to its nature and properties, from the point of view of paper conservation. With the help of schemes and tables, the polymers are classified in terms of characteristics and final uses in respect to this very complex material.