The Book: A Global History

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2013
Author	Editor: Michael F. Suarez Editor: Henry Woudhuysen
Language	English
Number of Pages	748 pp.
Publisher	Oxford University Press
City	Oxford, England
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Region	Africa Asia Canada Europe Latin America and Caribbean Middle East Oceania United States
Demographics	Children Jewish People, non US
Chronological Period	Ancient Period (pre 500) 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 1900-1949 1950-1999
ISBN	9780199679416
Annotation	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