Agnes Gehbald

• Global Book History
• Migration and Mobility
• Transatlantic Connections
• Colonial and Imperial History
• Latin American History

• Transatlantische Remigration nach Europa, 1870–1920, Postdoc-Projekt
   

• A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment
  Based on the research for my PhD project, this volume provides a wholly original social history of books in late colonial Peru. From the second half of the eighteenth century onward, workshops in Lima and transoceanic imports supplied the market with unprecedented quantities of print publications. By tracing the variety of printed commodities that were circulating in the urban sphere, as well as analysing the spatiality of the trade and the materiality of the books themselves, I assess the meaning of print culture in the everyday lives of the viceroyalty. I reveal how books permeated late colonial society on a broad scale and how they figured as objects in the inventories of diverse individuals, both women and men, who, in previous centuries, had been far less likely to possess them. A Colonial Book Market uncovers how people in Peruvian cities gained access to reading material and participated in the global Enlightenment project.

Auswahl:

• A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023.
• Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Supplies, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press, 1813, Book History (accepted, forthcoming).
• Lima Inside and Out: City Criticism and Transatlantic Book Confiscation around 1800, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, vol. 1: 2 (2022), 141-160.
• Druckprojekte indigener Sprachen im Vizekönigreich Peru: Publizierbarkeit und unveröffentlichte Manuskripte, Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, vol. 59 (2022), 181-217.
• [mit  Carlos Zegarra Moretti] Libros en los Andes: la biblioteca robada del cura indígena Fernando Ramos Titu Atauchi (1809), Revista Complutense de Historia de América, vol. 47 (2021), 181-208.
• [mit Nora E. Jiménez] Libros en movimiento: Nueva España y Perú XVI–XVIII, Michoacán: Colegio de Michoacán 2021.    

• BORIS-Publikationsliste (Bern Open Repository and Information System)

HS 2024 Übung
Weltmärkte: Globale Güter und Kommodifizierung der Arbeit in der longue durée

FS 2022 Lektürekurs
Theorien und Turns in der Geschichte