1．History

History within translation studies

The parts of translation history

The interdependence and separateness of the parts

A too-brief history of translation history

Reasons for doing translation history

2．Importance

What is importance?

Against blithe empiricism

Personal interests

Research and client interests

Subjective interests and humility

3．Lists

Reasons for lists

Getting data

The difference between catalogues and corpora

Shortcomings in bibliographies:four examples

Completeness in history and geology

Sources as sifted sands

The historian as reader of indexes

4．Working definitions

Why some information has to be thrown out?

In defence of definitions

Inclusive definitions

Defining translations from paratexts

Corpora of borderline cases

How Wagner sneaked in?

How Salomé danced out?

5．Frequencies

Statistics and importance

Diachronic distribution

Retranslations,re-editions and nontranslations

Retranslation and its reasons

A general diachronic hypothesis

6．Networks

Reconstructing networks from within

Mapping networks

Two cheap transfer maps

Lines and symbols

The spatial axis

Cities as borders

7．Norms and systems

Actually reading translations

Norms?

Systems?

Leaps of faith

The will to system

Subjectless prose

Where's the gold?

8．Regimes

What are regimes?

Starting from debates

A regime for twelfth-century Toledo

A regime for Castilian protohumanism

A regime for early twentieth-century poetry anthologies

Translation as a transaction cost

9．Causes

Systemic and probabilistic causation

Aristotle

Transfer as material causation

Final causes in theories of systems and actions

Equivalence as formal cause

Translators as efficient causes

Multiple causation

10．Translators

Translators,not'the translator'

Translators can do more than translate

Translators have personal interests

Translators can move

Translators can go by several names

11．Intercultures

Where intercultures are hidden?

Translations or translators?

Strangers and trust

Interculturality and its negation

Intercultural professions as a social context

An alternative basic link

What is a culture?

12．Interdisciplinarity

Personal reasons for pessimism

A lacking discipline

Cultural Studies?

Intercultural Studies

References

Index of Names ＆ Topics