A companion to the history of the book /

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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. --from publisher description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eliot, Simon, Rose, Jonathan
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 48.
Subjects:
Books
Printing
Books.
Printing.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Why bibliography matters / T.H. Howard-Hill
  • What is textual scholarship? / David Greetham
  • The uses of quantification / Alexis Weedon
  • Readers : books and biography / Stephen Colclough
  • The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson
  • The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome / Cornelia Roemer
  • China / J.S. Edgren
  • Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / Peter Kornicki
  • South Asia / Graham Shaw
  • Latin America / Hortensia Calvo
  • The Hebraic book / Emile G.L. Schrijver
  • The Islamic book / Michael Albin
  • The triumph of the codex : the manuscript book before 1100 / Michelle P. Brown
  • Parchment and paper : manuscript culture 1100-1500 / M.T. Clanchy
  • The Gutenberg revolutions / Lotte Hellinga
  • The book trade comes of age : the sixteenth century / David J. Shaw
  • The British book market 1600-1800 / John Feather
  • Print and public in Europe 1600-1800 / Rietje van Vliet
  • North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 / Russell L. Martin III
  • The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 / Rob Banham
  • From few and expensive to many and cheap : the British book market 1800-1890 / Simon Eliot
  • A continent of texts : Europe 1800-1890 / Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin
  • Building a national literature : the United States 1800-1890 / Robert A. Gross
  • The globalization of the book 1800-1970 / David Finkelstein
  • Modernity and print I : Britain 1890-1970 / Jonathan Rose
  • Modernity and print II : Europe 1890-1970 / Adriaan van der Weel
  • Modernity and print III : the United States 1890-1970 / Beth Luey
  • Books and bits : texts and technology 1970-2000 / Paul Luna
  • The global market 1970-2000 : producers / Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
  • The global market 1970-2000 : consumers / Claire Squires
  • Periodicals and periodicity / James Wald
  • The importance of ephemera / Martin Andrews
  • The new textual technologies / Charles Chadwyck-Healey
  • New histories of literacy / Patricia Crain
  • Some non-textual uses of books / Rowan Watson
  • The book as art / Megan L. Benton
  • Obscenity, censorship, and modernity / Deana Heath
  • Copyright and the creation of literary property / John Feather
  • Libraries and the invention of information / Wayne A. Wiegand
  • Does the book have a future? / Angus Phillips.

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