History and Power of Writing

Name: History and Power of Writing
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ISBN: 9780226508368

ISBN-10: 0226508366

ISBN-13: 9780226508368

Edition: 1994

Authors: Henri-Jean Martin, Lydia G. Cochrane

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Cultural history on a grand scale, this immensely readable book—the summation of decades of study by one of the world's great scholars of the book—is the story of writing from its very beginnings to its recent transformations through technology.Traversing four millennia, Martin offers a chronicle of writing as a cultural system, a means of communication, and a history of technologies. He shows how the written word originated, how it spread, and how it figured in the evolution of civilization. Using as his center the role of printing in making the written way of thinking dominant, Martin examines the interactions of individuals and cultures to produce new forms of "writing" in the many…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Writing Systems



The Written and the Spoken Word



Speech and Letters



The Death and Resurrection of Written Culture



The Arrival of Print



The Reign of the Book



The Forms and Functions of Writing: Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries



The Book and Society



The Industrial Era



Beyond Writing


Conclusion


Notes


Index