"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
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"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
Writing systems / Andrew RobinsonThe 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. Üc̈erler
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.
