Publishing Place: Transatlantic Modernity and Periodical Culture on Canada's East Coast

The 1917 Halifax Explosion all but destroyed a thriving book-publishing industry centred in Halifax and Saint John. In the wake of the devastation, dozens of periodicals emerged in its place, reshaping the social, cultural, and political landscape across the east coast and sparking literary and political discussions that reached beyond the space levelled by the catastrophe.

Publishing Place is both a critical study of periodical form and a cultural history of publishing on the east coast bet...