A companion to the history of the book

Simon Eliot, Jonathan Rose1405127651, 978-1405127653

Table of contents :
Contents……Page 7
List of Illustrations……Page 10
Notes on Contributors……Page 12
Introduction……Page 19
Part I Methods and Approaches……Page 25
1 Why Bibliography Matters……Page 27
2 What is Textual Scholarship?……Page 39
3 The Uses of Quantification……Page 51
4 Readers:Books and Biography……Page 68
Part II The History of the Material Text……Page 81
The World before the Codex……Page 83
5 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer,Assyria,and Babylonia……Page 85
6 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt,Greece,and Rome……Page 102
The Book beyond the West……Page 113
7 China……Page 115
8 Japan,Korea,and Vietnam……Page 129
9 South Asia……Page 144
10 Latin America……Page 156
11 The Hebraic Book……Page 171
12 The Islamic Book……Page 183
The Codex in the West 400 –2000……Page 195
13 The Triumph of the Codex:The Manuscript Book before 1100……Page 197
14 Parchment and Paper:Manuscript Culture 1100 –1500……Page 212
15 The Gutenberg Revolutions……Page 225
16 The Book Trade Comes of Age:The Sixteenth Century……Page 238
17 The British Book Market 1600 –1800……Page 250
18 Print and Public in Europe 1600 –1800……Page 265
19 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800……Page 277
20 The Industrialization of the Book 1800 –1970……Page 291
21 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap:The British Book Market 1800 –1890……Page 309
22 A Continent of Texts:Europe 1800 –1890……Page 321
23 Building a National Literature:The United States 1800 –1890……Page 333
24 The Globalization of the Book 1800 –1970……Page 347
25 Modernity and Print I:Britain 1890 –1970……Page 359
26 Modernity and Print II:Europe 1890 –1970……Page 372
27 Modernity and Print III:The United States 1890 –1970……Page 386
28 Books and Bits:Texts and Technology 1970 –2000……Page 399
29 The Global Market 1970 –2000:Producers……Page 413
30 The Global Market 1970 –2000:Consumers……Page 424
Part III Beyond the Book……Page 437
31 Periodicals and Periodicity……Page 439
32 The Importance of Ephemera……Page 452
33 The New Textual Technologies……Page 469
Part IV Issues……Page 483
34 New Histories of Literacy……Page 485
35 Some Non-textual Uses of Books……Page 498
36 The Book as Art……Page 511
37 Obscenity,Censorship,and Modernity……Page 526
38 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property……Page 538
39 Libraries and the Invention of Information……Page 549
Coda……Page 563
40 Does the Book Have a Future?……Page 565
Index……Page 578