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9780470765968

A Companion to the History of the Book

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470765968

  • ISBN10:

    0470765968

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts Written by a group of expert contributors Covers topical debates, such as the nature of censorship and the future of the book

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Methods and Approaches.
Why Bibliography Matters
What is Textual Scholarship?
The Uses of Quantification
Readers: Books and Biography
The History of the Material Text
The World before the Codex
The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia
The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome
The Book beyond the West
China
Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
South Asia
Latin America
The Hebraic Book
The Islamic Book
The Codex in the West 400û2000
The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100
Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100û1500
The Gutenberg Revolutions
The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century
The British Book Market 1600û1800
Print and Public in Europe 1600û1800
North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800
The Industrialization of the Book 1800û1970
From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800û1890
A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800û1890
Building a National Literature: The United States 1800û1890
The Globalization of the Book 1800û1970
Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890û1970
Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890û1970
Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890û1970
Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970û2000
The Global Market 1970û2000: Producers
The Global Market 1970û2000: Consumers
Beyond the Book
Periodicals and Periodicity
The Importance of Ephemera
The New Textual Technologies
Issues
New Histories of Literacy
Some Non-textual Uses of Books
The Book as Art
Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity
Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property
Libraries and the Invention of Information
Does the Book Have a Future?
Index
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