The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
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cloth, dust jacket,368 pages : illustrations, map,CONTENTS: Tracing Paper -- Alpha and Omega --Preparing the Soil --Genesis -- At the Margins --Paper Rain --Papyrocracy --The Handover -- Bibliophi...
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cloth, dust jacket,368 pages : illustrations, map,CONTENTS: Tracing Paper -- Alpha and Omega --Preparing the Soil --Genesis -- At the Margins --Paper Rain --Papyrocracy --The Handover -- Bibliophiles --Building Books --A New Music --Bagdatixon and its Ologies --A Continent Divides --Translating Europe --A New Dialogue --By the Cartload --Epilogue : Fading Trails. "Comprehensively researched, vividly written, The Paper Trail traces the cultural, political, and religious revolutions that this now globally ubiquitous material set in motion when it was new to the world. Alexander Monro--who has lived in, traveled through, studied, and written about China for many years--takes us from paper's refinement in 2nd century A.D. China, where it was used to solidify social and political systems that continue to influence the country today
Product Info
ISBN: 0307271668
ISBN-13: 9780307271662
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2016
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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