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Paper : paging through history / Mark Kurlansky.
Author
Kurlansky, Mark
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Description
xx, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
TS1090 .K87 2016
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Papermaking
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History
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Paper industry
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History
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History
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Summary note
Through tracing paper's evolution, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's influence, affirming that paper is here to stay.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354) and index.
Contents
Prologue: The technological fallacy
Being human
The moths that circle a Chinese candle
The Islamic birth of literacy
And where is Xátiva?
Europe between two felts
Making words soar
The art of printing
Out from Mainz
Tenochtitlán and the blue-eyed devil
The trumpet call
Rembrandt's discovery
The traitorous corruption of England
Papering independence
Diderot's promise
Invitation from a wasp
Advantages in the head
To die like gentlemen
Return to Asia
Epilogue: change
Appendix: Timeline.
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ISBN
9780393239614 ((hardcover))
0393239616 ((hardcover))
9780393353709 ((paperback))
0393353702 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016007084
OCLC
933727269
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