A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

TitleA Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsFlanders, Judith
Number of Pages319 pp.
PublisherBasic Books
CityNew York, NY
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781541675070
Annotation

Contents:
A is for antiquity: from the beginning to the classical world
B is for the Benedictines: the monasteries and the Early Middle Ages
C is for categories: authorities and organization, to the twelfth century
D is for distinctiones: the High Middle Ages and the search tool
E is for expansion: the reference work in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
F is for firsts: from the birth of printing to library catalogs in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries
G is for government: bureaucracy and the office, from the sixteenth century to the French Revolution
H is for history: libraries, research, and extracting in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
I is for index cards: from copy clerks to office supplies in the nineteenth century
Y is for Y2K: from the phone book to hypertext in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries