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Shaping the ideas of their nationals through school was one of the main aims of the Italian leading classes after the unification. Textbooks were great tools in that sense, given that they often were the only books that entered people's homes. The research conducted on manuscript and printed sources shows how publishers took advantage of this political and pedagogic need, putting in place multiple strategies that were aimed at selling more books. By retracing the history of major Milanese schoolbook publishers, the volume thus reflects on which strategies were adopted: publishing in series, combining newspapers and journals, exploiting school annual prizes. It emerges that Milanese publishers, albeit neglected by the historiography on schoolbooks, were able to challenge their colleagues and competitors from Florence and Turin, usually recognised as educational publishers since they builded on a longer tradition in the field. The book also retraces the late emergence, in Italy, of what we now call children's literature, showing how long it has been confined to educational and edifying books.
Author(s): Marazzi E
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Year: 2014
Number of Volumes: 1
Number of Pages: 338
Print publication date: 02/07/2015
Acceptance date: 01/02/2014
Publisher: Franco Angeli
Place Published: Milan
URL: https://www.francoangeli.it/Ricerca/Scheda_libro.aspx?ID=22224
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9788891708045
