The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 August 2020
- ISBN 9780198702986
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 255x200x26 mm
- Weight 1100 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 168 illustrations 167
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Short description:
An edited volume mapping the history of the book, from the Ancient World through to the rapidly changing world of the book in the second decade of the 21st century.
MoreLong description:
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative that is global in scope.
The history of the book is the history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated texts, their manufacture, distribution, and reception. Here are different types of production, from clay tablets to scrolls, from inscribed codices to printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers, from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination, all dependent on innovations in transport, from coastal and transoceanic shipping to roads, trains, planes and the internet. It is a history of different modes of reading and reception, from learned debate and individual study to public instruction and entertainment. It is a history of manufacture, craftsmanship, dissemination, reading and debate.
Yet the history of books is not simply a question of material form, nor indeed of the history of reading and reception. The larger question is of the effect of textual production, distribution and reception - of how books themselves made history. To this end, each chapter of this volume, succinctly bounded by period and geography, offers incisive and stimulating insights into the relationship between books and the story of their times.
[A] brilliant book... illustrated with the most sumptuous photographic images of books ancient and modern.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Ancient World
Byzantium
Medieval and Early Modern East Asia
Western Europe, c. 450-c.1450
Renaissance and Reformation
Managing Information
The Islamic World
Enlightenment and Revolution
South Asia
Industrialization
Modern China, Japan and Korea
Globalization
Books Transformed
Glossary
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Index
