White Magic - The Age of Paper

Name: White Magic - The Age of Paper
Brand: Polity Press
SKU: 9780745672533
Price: 18594 HUF
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Szerző: Lothar Muller

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Polity Press

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Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network med...

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Szerző

Lothar Muller

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2014

oldal

352

EAN

9780745672533

ISBN

0745672531

Enbook ID

04909017

Kiadó

Polity Press

Súly

638

Méretek

157 x 236 x 30

Teljes leírás

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. As letters it became the setting for the invention of the modern soul, and as newsprint it became a stage for politics. In this brilliant new book Lothar Muller describes how paper made its way from China through the Arab world to Europe, where it permeated everyday life in a variety of formats from the thirteenth century onwards, and how the paper technology revolution of the nineteenth century paved the way for the creation of the modern daily press. His key witnesses are the works of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, Balzac and Herman Melville, James Joyce and Paul Valery. Muller writes not only about books, however: he also writes about pamphlets, playing cards, papercutting and legal pads. We think we understand the 'Gutenberg era', but we can understand it better when we explore the world that underpinned it: the paper age.Today, with the proliferation of digital devices, paper may seem to be a residue of the past, but Muller shows that the humble technology of paper is in many ways the most fundamental medium of the modern world.

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