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A companion to the history of the book

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Contents

Why bibliography matters / T.H. Howard-Hill
What is textual scholarship? / David Greetham
The uses of quantification / Alexis Weedon
Readers : books and biography / Stephen Colclough
The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson
The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome / Cornelia Roemer
China / J.S. Edgren
Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / Peter Kornicki
South Asia / Graham Shaw
Latin America / Hortensia Calvo
The Hebraic book / Emile G.L. Schrijver
The Islamic book / Michael Albin
The triumph of the codex : the manuscript book before 1100 / Michelle P. Brown
Parchment and paper : manuscript culture 1100-1500 / M.T. Clanchy
The Gutenberg revolutions / Lotte Hellinga
The book trade comes of age : the sixteenth century / David J. Shaw
The British book market 1600-1800 / John Feather
Print and public in Europe 1600-1800 / Rietje van Vliet
North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 / Russell L. Martin III
The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 / Rob Banham
From few and expensive to many and cheap : the British book market 1800-1890 / Simon Eliot
A continent of texts : Europe 1800-1890 / Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin
Building a national literature : the United States 1800-1890 / Robert A. Gross
The globalization of the book 1800-1970 / David Finkelstein
Modernity and print I : Britain 1890-1970 / Jonathan Rose
Modernity and print II : Europe 1890-1970 / Adriaan van der Weel
Modernity and print III : the United States 1890-1970 / Beth Luey
Books and bits : texts and technology 1970-2000 / Paul Luna
The global market 1970-2000 : producers / Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
The global market 1970-2000 : consumers / Claire Squires
Periodicals and periodicity / James Wald
The importance of ephemera / Martin Andrews
The new textual technologies / Charles Chadwyck-Healey
New histories of literacy / Patricia Crain
Some non-textual uses of books / Rowan Watson
The book as art / Megan L. Benton
Obscenity, censorship, and modernity / Deana Heath
Copyright and the creation of literary property / John Feather
Libraries and the invention of information / Wayne A. Wiegand
Does the book have a future? / Angus Phillips.

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