The Library: A Fragile History

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2021
Author	Author: Andrew Pettegree Author: Arthur der Weduwen
Language	English
Number of Pages	518 pp.
Publisher	Basic Books
City	New York, NY
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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 21st century
ISBN	9781541600775
Annotation	Contents: Prologue. curating the ruins Part 1: Inception and survival. A confusion of scrolls Sanctuary Little monkeys and letters of gold Part 2: The crisis of print. The infernal press Coming of age Reformations Part 3: The new collectors. The professionals Idle books and riff raff Mission fields Part 4: Between public and private. Grand designs Cardinal errors The antiquarians Part 5: Fictions. Orderly minds Building empires Reading on the job Part 6: The war on books. Surviving the twentieth century Wrestling with modernity Libraries, books and politics Postscript. Reading without books