Description: Further DetailsTitle: What is the History of the Book?Condition: NewAuthor: James RavenFormat: HardbackEAN: 9780745641614ISBN: 9780745641614Publisher: Polity PressGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Society & Culture, HistoryRelease Date: 12/15/2017Description: James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and general readers will benefit from the book's investigation of the subject's origins, scope and future direction. Based on original research and a wide range of sources, What is the History of the Book? shows how book history crosses disciplinary boundaries and intersects with literary, historical, media, library, conservation and communications studies. Raven uses examples from around the world to explore different traditions in bibliography, palaeography and manuscript studies. He analyses book history's growing global ambition and demonstrates how the study of reading practices opens up new horizons in social history and the history of knowledge. He shows how book history is contributing to debates about intellectual and popular culture, colonialism and the communication of ideas. The first global, accessible introduction to the field of book history from ancient to modern times, What is the History of the Book? is essential reading for all those interested in one of society's most important cultural artefacts.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 218mmItem Length: 145mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 386gBook Series: What is History?Release Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What is the History of the Book?
Title: What is the History of the Book?
EAN: 9780745641614
ISBN: 9780745641614
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: History
Release Date: 12/15/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Number of Pages: 196 Pages
Publication Name: What Is the History of the Book?
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Bibliographies & Indexes, Historiography, Publishing, Graphic Arts / Typography, Books & Reading
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: James Raven
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Design, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Length: 8.6 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Series: What Is History? Ser.
Format: Hardcover
