Braving Atlantic commerce routes traveled thus far by only a handful of scholars, Eugenia Roldán Vera sets out to study books produced in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century for an independent Spanish America, where print culture was beginning to take root and where ways of reading were multiplying, allowing print to shape identities. Indeed, research on book history and the field of print culture in Spanish America is limited, with most work focused on the colonial period or the twentieth century. Yet in scholarly conversations over the past five years, nineteenth-century Latin American print culture has become an increasingly popular topic engaged by scholars like Iván Jaksic, Rebecca Earle, Fernando Unzueta, Jorge Myers, and Paula Alonso. Roldán Vera’s study is a welcome addition to this emerging field. Unique among the contributions to the debate on Latin American book history is her emphasis on book commerce in...
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