Paper : paging through history /
Through tracing paper's evolution, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's influence, affirming that paper is here to stay.
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016] |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The Technological Fallacy
- Chapter 1. Being Human
- Chapter 2. The Moths That Circle a Chinese Candle
- Chapter 3. The Islamic Birth of Literacy
- Chapter 4. And Where is Xátiva?
- Chapter 5. Europe between Two Felts
- Chapter 6. Making Words Soar
- Chapter 7. The Art of Printing
- Chapter 8. Out from Mainz
- Chapter 9. Tenochtitlán and the Blue-Eyed Devil
- Chapter 10. The Trumpet Call
- Chapter 11. Rembrandt's Discovery
- Chapter 12. The Traitorous Corruption of England
- Chapter 13. Papering Independence
- Chapter 14. Diderot's Promise
- Chapter 15. Invitation From a Wasp
- Chapter 16. Advantages in the Head
- Chapter 17. To Die Like Gentlemen
- Chapter 18. Return to Asia
- Epilogue: Change
- Appendix: Timeline
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index