TY - SER
AU - Michael F. Suarez
AU - Henry Woudhuysen
CY - Oxford, England
LA - English
N1 -
Includes articles originally published in the Oxford Companion to the Book (2010)
Contents:
- 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. Üçerler, 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
- 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
PB - Oxford University Press
PP - Oxford, England
PY - 2013
SN - 9780199679416
EP - 748 pp.
TI - The Book: A Global History
ER -