A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.

1. Introduction - James Raven
Part One: Knowledge and Reception
2. Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard Coulton
3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven
5. The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra
6. An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library - Sean Moore
Part Two: Images and News
7. Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England - Isabelle Baudino
8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach
9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles - Francesco A. Morriello
10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina Soriano
Part Three: Multiple Diffusions
11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions - Despina Magkanari
12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya
13. The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw
14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia Brokaw
Conclusion - James Raven
Select Bibliography
Index