White Magic: The Age of Paper

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2014
Author
Translator: Jessica Spengler
Language
English
Number of Pages
311 pp.
Publisher
Polity Press
City
Malden, MA
Region
Chronological Period
ISBN
9780745672533
Annotation

Explores the diffusion and uses of paper from China through the Arab world to Europe. 

Contents: 

  • Leaves from Samarkand
  • The rustling grows louder
  • The universal substance
  • The printed and the unprinted
  • Adventurers and paper
  • Transparent typography
  • The demons of the paper machine
  • Newsprint and the emergence of the popular press
  • Illuminated inner worlds
  • The inventory of modernity
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