Book review: Book trade behind education. A journey through the circuit of textbook production (first half of the 19th century)

Abstract

Critical review of the work Libros, negocios y educación. La empresa editorial de Rudolph Ackermann para Hispanoamérica en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, by Eugenia Roldán Vera. It highlights the perspective she exposes about the production, distribution and reception circuit of the textbooks disseminated in Hispanic America in the first decades after independence, especially those published by Rudolph Ackermann in England—who was part of an enterprise encouraged by politicians and scholars from both Spain and the budding countries—and served for the learning of the first letters and the dissemination of sciences, especially by the Lancasterian Company. Among other aspects, the documentary and methodological basis that sustains the research behind this book, and the theoretical level reached by the author, are highlighted.