In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph's main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely ri…
English summary title: Textual culture of Vilnius (1323 - 1655), rhetorical organizing of the city.
Introduction : Computer programming as literacy -- Coding for everyone and the legacy of mass literacy -- Sociomaterialities of programming and writing -- Material infrastructures of programming and writing -- Literacy for everyday life -- Conclusion : Promoting coding literacy …
"Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century, Miles Ogborn takes readers into scriptoria, ships, offices, print shops, coffeehouses, and palac…
A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work…
In February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and given the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him…
