This book examines the production and use of type in Europe from c1450-1600. Topics covered include the technicalities of the production of type, the diversity of letterforms (blackletter, roman, italic, and more), the tensions between Latin and the vernacular languages, and the…
"Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provid…
This volume is about nothing less than the technological, intellectual, and sociopolitical changes of modern China on the structure of the book (and print) trade, the stimulation of new genres of print, writing practices, the dissemination of ideas and texts, the organization of…
The history of the book in China from 1000 to 1800. The author compares the Chinese experience with books with that of other civilizations, particularly the European.
The history of the book in China from 1000 to 1800. The author compares the Chinese experience with books with that of other civilizations, particularly the European.
This volume discusses print production and politics in 19th and early 20th century Goa. It points to the comparative paucity of academic studies of this period, and suggests why it is necessary to address political and cultural developments of the time. Through a reading of news…
This volume discusses print production and politics in 19th and early 20th century Goa. It points to the comparative paucity of academic studies of this period, and suggests why it is necessary to address political and cultural developments of the time. Through a reading of news…
The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could strongly influence the interpretation and status of texts by adding introductory…
"The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and time of accumulated experiences, concepts, rules, and models. From the invention of the alphabet to the development of ASCII code for electronic communication, the process of recording and transmitting this…
