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" The book : "
edited by Michael F. Suarez, S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen
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624644
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The book : : a global history /\ edited by Michael F. Suarez, S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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xx, 748 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 25 cm
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9780199679416
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: 019967941X
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Includes articles previously published as part of The Oxford companion to the book, 2010, plus three new articles--Title page verso and dust jacket front flap
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Thematic studies : Writing systems / Andrew Robinson ; The sacred book / Carl Olson ; The ancient book / Craig Kallendorf ; The history of the book in Byzantium / N.G. Wilson ; The European medieval book / Christopher de Hamel ; The European printing revolution / Cristina Dondi ; The book as symbol / Brian Cummings ; The transmission of Jewish knowledge through MSS and printed books / Emile G.L. Schrijver ; Missionary printing / M. Antoni J. Ü̈cerler, S.J. ; Paper / Daven Christopher Chamberlain ; The technologies of print / James Mosley ; The economics of print / Alexis Weedon ; Censorship / Elisabeth Ladenson ; Concepts of intellectual property and copyright / Adam D. Moore ; The manuscript after the coming of print / Harold Love ; Printed ephemera / Michael Harris ; Children's books / Andrea Immel ; The history of illustration and its technologies / Paul Goldman ; Bookbinding / David Pearson ; Theories of text, editorial theory, and textual criticism / Marcus Walsh ; The electronic book / Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto -- Regional and national histories of the book : Britain, c.1475-1800 / Andrew Murphy ; Britain, 1801-1914 / Leslie Howsam ; Britain from 1914 / Claire Squires ; Ireland / Niall Ó Ciosáin and Clare Hutton ; France / Vincent Giroud ; The Low countries / Paul Hoftijzer ; Germany / John L. Flood ; Switzerland / Lukas Erne ; The Nordic countries / Charlotte Appel and Karen Skovgaard-Petersen ; The Iberian Peninsula / María Luisa López-Vidriero ; Italy / Neil Harris ; Modern Greece, c.1453-2000 / Alexis Politis ; Austria / John L. Flood ; Hungary / Bridget Guzner ; The Czech Republic and Slovakia / Devana Pavlik ; Poland / Janet Zmroczek ; The Baltic states / Jürgen M. Warmbrunn ; The Slavonic book in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus / Christine Thomas ; The Balkans / Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia and Aleksandra B. Vraneš ; Sub-Saharan Africa / Andrew van der Vlies ; The Muslim world / Geoffrey Roper ; The Indian Subcontinent / Abhijit Gupta ; China / J.S. Edgren ; Korea / Beth McKillop ; Japan / P.F. Kornicki ; Southeast Asia 1: The islands / Edwin Paul Wieringa ; Southeast Asia 2 : The mainland / Jana Igunma ; Australia / Ian Morrison ; New Zealand / Shef Rogers ; Latin America (including Incas and Aztecs) / Eugenia Roldán Vera ; Canada / Patricia Lockhart Fleming ; America / Scott E. Casper and Joan Shelley Rubin ; The Caribbean and Bermuda / Jeremy B. Dibbell
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"This volume seeks to delineate the history of the production, dissemination, and reception of texts from the earliest pictograms of the mid-4th millennium to recent developments in electronic books."--Page xi
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Books-- History
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Printing-- History
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Book industries and trade-- History
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002.09
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Z4.B644 2013
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Suarez, Michael F.,1960-
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Woudhuysen, H. R.
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