The Mystery of History, Volume 1
Author : Linda Lacour Hobar
Publisher : Bright Ideas Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781892427045
Author : Linda Lacour Hobar
Publisher : Bright Ideas Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781892427045
Author : Simon Eliot
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 140519278X
A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how cultures come into being, endure, and change, then you need to come to terms with the rich and often surprising history Of the book ... Eliot and Rose have done a fine job. Their volume can be heartily recommended. “ Adrian Johns, Technology and Culture From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Many of them use illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts, conveying the excitement surrounding this rapidly developing field. The Companion is organized around four distinct approaches to the history of the book. First, it introduces the variety of methods used by book historians and allied specialists, from the long-established discipline of bibliography to newer IT-based approaches. Next, it provides a broad chronological survey of the forms and content of texts. The third section situates the book in the context of text culture as a whole, while the final section addresses broader issues, such as literacy, copyright, and the future of the book. Contributors to this volume: Michael Albin, Martin Andrews, Rob Banham, Megan L Benton, Michelle P. Brown, Marie-Frangoise Cachin, Hortensia Calvo, Charles Chadwyck-Healey, M. T. Clanchy, Stephen Colclough, Patricia Crain, J. S. Edgren, Simon Eliot, John Feather, David Finkelstein, David Greetham, Robert A. Gross, Deana Heath, Lotte Hellinga, T. H. Howard-Hill, Peter Kornicki, Beth Luey, Paul Luna, Russell L. Martin Ill, Jean-Yves Mollier, Angus Phillips, Eleanor Robson, Cornelia Roemer, Jonathan Rose, Emile G. L Schrijver, David J. Shaw, Graham Shaw, Claire Squires, Rietje van Vliet, James Wald, Rowan Watson, Alexis Weedon, Adriaan van der Weel, Wayne A. Wiegand, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.
Author : Wilma Mankiller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618001828
Covers issues and events in women's history that were previously unpublished, misplaced, or forgotten, and provides new perspectives on each event.
Author : Celeste W. Rakes
Publisher : Bright Ideas Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781892427106
Author : Leslie Howsam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107023734
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
Author : Sonya Romens
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2014-06-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780692239148
This Companion Reader is a bridge between a textbook and living books. It containssimple articles about cultures, places and events from history in more depth than is foundin most textbooks, stories to illustrate themes contained in the Connecting with Historyunits, and short historical stories written in a friendly, conversational style about real peopleand events.
Author : David Finkelstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134380062
This is a comprehensive introduction to books and print culture which examines the move from the spoken word to written texts, the book as commodity, the power and profile of readers, and the future of the book in an electronic age.
Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199660308
Sixteen cutting edge explorations of key themes in history across the globe by leading scholars, essential to an understanding of the current state of historical scholarship and to envisaging the future of the discipline.
Author : Ann Blair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0691179549
"Information technology shapes nearly every part of modern life, and debates about information--its meaning, effects, and applications--are central to a range of fields, from economics, technology, and politics to library science, media studies, and cultural studies. This rich, unique resource traces the history of information with an approach designed to draw connections across fields and perspectives, and provide essential context for our current age of information. Clear, accessible, and authoritative, the book opens with a series of articles that provide a narrative history of information from premodern practices to twenty-first-century information culture. This section focuses on major developments in the creation, storage, search, exchange, management, and manipulation of information, as well as the many meanings and uses of information over time. Coverage spans Europe, North America, and many other places and periods, including the medieval Islamic world and early modern East Asia, as well as the emergence of global networks. A second, alphabetical section includes more than 100 concise articles that cover specific concepts (e.g., data, intellectual property, privacy); formats and genres (books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls, social media); people (archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers); practices (censorship, forecasting, learning, surveilling, translating); processes (digitization, quantification, storage and search); systems (bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications); technologies (algorithms, cameras, computers), and much more. The book concludes with an informative glossary, defining terms from "analog/digital" to "World Wide Web.""--
Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : History
ISBN :
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.