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    The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature
      
    
  
                A few years ago, at a get-together in Santiago, Chile, I met a local man I’ll call Luis. Amid small talk, he mentioned that he supervises a number of his family’s copper mines in the north. When I asked him how his family came to own them, he shrugged and said...
          
  
  
    Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters
      
    
  
                Johns Hopkins University Press announces the first volume of “Information Cultures,” a series illuminating the material and cultural circumstances that have shaped the production, reading, and public consumption of texts. Editors: Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton...
          
  
  
    Writing to the World
      
    
  
                Since the 2016 presidential election, we have had almost daily reminders of the prevalence of “fake news” in our new, Facebook and Twitter-reliant media landscape. Frequently, the blame for this phenomenon falls on the media themselves, as commentators...