A Companion to the History of the Book, 2 Vol Set

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Volume1
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	Contents
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction to the Second Edition
	Part I Methods, Materials, and Readers
		Chapter 1 Bibliography
			Analytical Bibliography
			Descriptive and Enumerative Bibliography
			Textual Bibliography
			History of the Book
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 2 Textual Scholarship
			Various Traditions
			Changing Definitions: Document, Text, Version, and Work
			The Digital Turn
			Orientations to Text
			Notes
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 3 The Uses of Quantification
			Common Sources for the Quantitative Study of the Book Trade
			Statistical Methods Used
			Common Limitations to Quantitative Analysis
			Understanding Trends with Time Series
			Reading Variables
			Locative Methods
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 4 Paleography and Codicology
			Codicology
			References and Further Reading
			Some Websites
		Chapter 5 Paper
			What Is Paper?
			The Invention of Paper
			Pouring and Floating Mold Techniques
			Knowledge of the Invention Spreads
			Papermaking in East Asia
			Central, West, and South Asian Papermaking
			European Papermaking to 1900
			Beating Methods
			Rigid Mold and Deckle
			Watermarks
			Sheet Formation
			Pressing and Drying
			Finishing
			The Paper Machine
			Alternative Fibers
			Is There a Future for Paper?
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 6 Type, Typography, and the Typographer
			Introduction
			The Typographer
			Type and Typography
			Conclusion
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 7 Printing to 1970
			Relief Printing
			Intaglio Printing
			Planographic Printing
			The Impact of Photography
			Direct Printing
			Color Printing
			Printing for All
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 8 Bookbinding
			The Early Years of the Codex
			Further Reading
		Chapter 9 Archives and Paperwork
			Paperwork: Records in Action
			Archives in Critical Theory
			Archives and the State in the Early Modern World
			Archives, Nationalism, and Empire
			Archives and Justice in a Post‐colonial World
			Reading Against the Grain: Archival Methodology and Non‐elite Histories
			Conclusion
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 10 New Histories of Literacy
			The Trouble with “Literacy”
			A Short History of the History of Literacy
			The Ethics and Politics of Literacy History
			Finding Literacy in All the Wrong Places
			The Poetics of Literacy
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 11 Readers: Books and Biography
			References
	Part II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East
		Chapter 12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia
			Books of Clay? Cuneiform Culture
			Schoolbooks in Bronze Age Sumer?
			Books as Cultural Capital in Iron Age Assyria
			Books and Professional Identity in Hellenistic Babylonia
			Conclusions: Re-reading Tablets in the Light of Book History
			References
		Chapter 13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book Before 1100
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500
			Scribes and their Status
			Books in Vernacular Languages
			Books of Theology and Law
			Making Personal Books
			Learning to Read
			References and Further Reading
	Part III The Book in the Wider World
		Chapter 16 China
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 17 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
			Japan
			Korea
			Vietnam
		Chapter 18 South Asia
			Orality and Performance
			The Invention of Writing
			South Asia’s Manuscript Culture
			The Arrival of Print
			The English Book in India
			Indigenous Publishing and Colonial Power
			Publishing from Independence to Today
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 19 Latin America
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 20 The Hebraic Book
			Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
			The Decoration of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
			Hebrew Scripts
			The Hebrew Printed Book
			Post-medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
			Book Trade and Bibliophilism
			Conclusion
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 21 Books in Arabic Script
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 22 The Slavic Book
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 23 Africa
			Manuscript Cultures
			The Colonial Era and Print Culture
			Indigenous Publishing and Decolonization
			Conclusion
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 24 Canada and Australasia
			Canada
			Australia
			New Zealand
			Conclusion
			References
Volume2
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	Contents
	Notes on Contributors
	Part IV The Printed Book Predominant
		Chapter 25 The Gutenberg Revolutions
			The Technique: (1) Manufacturing Movable Type
			The Technique: (2) The Printing Press
			The Printing House
			The Spread of Printing After its Invention
			Fifteenth-century Books
			The Trade in Printed Books
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century
			Incunables and Post‐incunables: Continuity and Innovation
			Scholar Printers
			Religion
			Regulation
			Geography: The Continued Spread of Printing Centers
			The Book Trades
			Customers
			Look to the Future
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 27 The British Book Market 1600–1800
			The World of the Book
			Authors: The Primary Producers of the Book Trade
			Growing the Market
			The Distribution of Books: The Circuit Completed
			Buyers and Readers: The End and the Beginning
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 28 Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800
			International Book Trade
			The Expansion of the Public Sphere
			The Emancipation of Writers
			Constraints on Books
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970
			Papermaking
			New Presses
			Stereotyping and Electrotyping
			Bookbinding
			Hot Metal
			Lithography
			Photography
			Color
			The Mass-market Paperback
			The Shape of Things to Come
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800–90
			The 1800s and 1890s
			Communications and Literacy
			Literary Property and its Consequences
			Patterns of Production
			Cheap Books and Part‐works
			Lending and Selling
			Other Bestsellers
			The World We Have Lost
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890
			A Second Revolution of the Book?
			Industrial Literature
			Guidebooks, Practical Books, and Mass‐market Dictionaries
			The Internationalization of the Novel
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800–1890
			Further Reading
		Chapter 34 The Globalization of the Book 1800–1970
			Copyright and Technological Innovation
			Global Book Trade Expansion
			Exporting the Industrialized Book Trade Model
			Literary Agents
			Globalization and the Twentieth Century
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890–1970
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890–1970
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 37 Modernity and Print III:: The United States 1890–1970
			The Business of Publishing
			The Rise of the American Author
			A New Generation of Publishers
			The Impact of War
			The Paperback
			Engulf & Devour
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology since 1970
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 39 The Global Market 1970–2015: Producers
			Ownership and Control
			Evolution and Change in Global Publishing, 1970–2014
			The Impact of Technological Change
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 40 The Global Market 1970–2015: Consumers
			The Global Market
			Globalized Content and the Consumer
			Market Knowledge and Academic Research
			References
	Part V Extending Print
		Chapter 41 Periodicals and Periodicity
			Defining the Genre
			Evolution of the Periodical: Origins to Apogee
			Periodicals Conquer the Globe
			Agents and Advantages
			The Periodical at the Millennium
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 42 The Importance of Ephemera
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 43 Some Non-textual Uses of Books
			Divination
			The Power of the Book as an Object
			The Book as an Object of Display
			Talismanic Use of Books and Texts
			Saintly Books
			Taking Oaths upon the Book
			Books That Boast
			Non-textual Uses of Libraries
			Decorated Gifts
			Books as Interior Decoration
			Further Reading
		Chapter 44 The Book as Art
			Technology and Artistic Practice
			The Book Arts before the Eighteenth Century
			The Book Arts in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
			Book Art of the Twentieth and Twenty‐first Centuries
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 45 The New Textual Technologies
			Introduction
			History of Digital Texts: From Computational Texts to Hypertexts
			Hypertexts
			Digital Representations: Pages and Scrolls
			Digital Representations: Markup and What the Texts Really Are
			The Collaborative and Written–oral Text
			Digital Libraries and Archives
			From E-texts to E‐books
			E-books and the Disembodiment of the Electronic Text
			References and Further Reading
			Notes
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 46 Scientific Publications, c.1500–2000
			Books
			Journals
			Conclusions
			References
		Chapter 47 Maps and Their Readers Since the Middle Ages
			Maps for Explaining, Maps for Portraying
			Maps and Their Masters
			Buyers and Collectors of Maps: The Market
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 48 Music and Print
			Beginnings
			Emancipation
			Revolution
			Globalization
			References and Further Reading
	Part VI Consequences
		Chapter 49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 50 The Common Writer since 1500
			Introduction: Two Literacies
			Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Memory Books
			Autobiographical Writing
			Correspondence: Writings of Emigration
			Postal Services
			Nineteenth-century Ego-documents
			The Explosion of Popular Writing in World War I
			Vernacular Literacy
			Conclusion
			References
			Further Reading in English
		Chapter 51 The Profession of Authorship
			Notes
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 52 Lexicography: The Invention of Language
			Functions of Dictionaries
			Dictionary Structure and the Defining Process
			Ideology and Authority
			Controversy
			Curb Your Enthusiasm
			Notes
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 53 Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 54 Book Collecting
			References and Further Reading
		Chapter 55 Libraries and the Invention of Information
			References and Further Reading
	Coda
		Chapter 56 Does the Book Have a Future?
			Gone Digital
			Society and Culture
			Free Culture
			The Book’s Digital Future
			The Resilience of the Book
			References and Further Reading
Index
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