Join us in Boston to celebrate the launch of Professor Andrew Pettegree's new work, The Book at War. You will have the opportunity to hear extracts from the book, meet the author, and mingle with the St Andrews community in Boston.
Date & Time: Tuesday, December 12 from 6:00 - 7:30pm ET
Location: Boston Public Library, Orientation Room - 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Tickets are $25 per person and include light refreshments.
Since the advent of modern warfare, books have all too often found themselves on the frontline. In The Book at War, acclaimed historian Andrew Pettegree traces the surprising ways in which written culture - from travel guides and scientific papers to Biggles and Anne Frank - has shaped, and been shaped, by the conflicts of the modern age. From the American Civil War to the invasion of Ukraine, books, authors and readers have gone to war - and in the process become both deadly weapons and our most persuasive arguments for peace.
Andrew Pettegree, FBA is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, an online bibliography of all books published in the first two centuries of print. He is the author of sixteen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication including Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2010), The Invention of News (Yale University Press, 2014), Brand Luther (Penguin, 2015), The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (Yale University Press, 2019) and The Library: A Fragile (Profile, 2021). He is a former Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society.