Research Catalog

Title

The book : a global history / edited by Michael F. Suarez, S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Suarez, Michael F., 1960-
• Woudhuysen, H. R.

Description

xx, 748 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"This volume seeks to delineate the history of the production, dissemination, and reception of texts from the earliest pictograms of the mid-4th millennium to recent developments in electronic books."--P. xi.

Subjects

• Printing > History
• Book industries and trade > History
• Books > History

Note

• Includes articles previously published as part of The Oxford companion to the book, 2010, plus three new articles. (Title page verso and dust jacket front flap)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. Ü̈cerler -- 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 -- Regional and national histories of the book. 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.

Call Number

JFE 14-2715

ISBN

• 019967941X (hardcover)
• 9780199679416 (hardcover)

OCLC

830367905

Title

The book : a global history / edited by Michael F. Suarez, S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Suarez, Michael F., 1960- editor.

Woudhuysen, H. R., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2715