Paper: Paging Through History
From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. By tracing paper's evolution from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the contributions made in Asia and the Middle East, Mark Kurlansky challenges comm…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-28548-2
- EAN: 9780393285482
- Produktnummer: 34248146
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 21'243 KB
- Abbildungen: 24 illustrations
Über den Autor
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times best-selling author of twenty-nine books and a former foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives in New York City.
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