A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2020
Contributors Author: Judith Flanders
Language
Number of Pages
319 pp.
Publisher
Basic Books
City
New York, NY
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Chronological Period
ISBN
9781541675070
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