Paper : paging through history / Mark Kurlansky.

Author
Kurlansky, Mark [Browse]
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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780393239614 ((hardcover))
    • 0393239616 ((hardcover))
    • 9780393353709 ((paperback))
    • 0393353702 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016007084
    OCLC
    933727269
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