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The Book: The Life Story of a Technology
"This volume provides a broad overview of the printed book's development across many centuries, cultures, and in a variety of fields. It highlights the forerunners and offshoots of books that have come from and been dispersed to all corners of the globe. The creation of a single book re...
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Westport, Conn
Greenwood Press
2005
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| Series: | Greenwood technographies.
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Table of Contents:
- Ancestors : books before print
- Infancy : the earliest printed books, 1450-1500
- Youth : books in the sixteenth century
- Adulthood : early-modern books, 1600-1800
- Maturity : books in the age of automation, 1800-1900
- The future of books : twentieth century and beyond.