An international trade emerged between 1870-1895 that incorporated the circulation of books among countries worldwide. A history of the social network and select agents who sold and distributed books overseas, this study demonstrates agents increasingly thought of the world as a negotiable, connected system and books as transnational commodities.

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ALISON RUKAVINA teaches in the English and Film Studies Department at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she completed her PhD in 2007.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Social Networks Developing Distribution Channels and the Social Network Piracy, Copyright, and the International Book Trade The International Book Trade The Colonial Booksellers Agency Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index