The Book: A Global History

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