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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1 (James Raven)
Chapter 2 (Eleanor Robson)
Chapter 3 (Barbara Crostini)
Chapter 4 (Cynthia Brokaw)
Chapter 5 (David Rundle)
Chapter 6 (James Raven and Goran Proot)
Chapter 7 (Ann Blair)
Chapter 8 (Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom)
Chapter 9 (Jeffrey Freedman)
Chapter 10 (Graham Shaw)
Chapter 11 (Marie-Françoise Cachin)
Chapter 12 (Christopher A. Reed and M. William Steele)
Chapter 13 (Eva Hemmungs Wirtén)
Chapter 14 (Jeffrey T. Schnapp)
Notes on Contributors
Timeline
1. Introduction
Definitions
Different Compasses
Debates and Challenges
2. The Ancient World
Ancient Writing
What Do Books Do?
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Materialities of the Ancient Book
East Asia and Beyond
The Middle East and Mediterranean
The Americas
Concluding Observations
3. Byzantium
The Changing Shape of the Book
The Christian Codex
Designing the Page: Text Meets Image
The Minuscule Codex
Readers as Learners: Didactic Strategies
The Luxury Codex
The Virtual Codex
4. Medieval and Early Modern East Asia
Technological Innovation and a Shared Book Culture in Medieval East Asia
The Publishing Boom of Early Modern East Asia
5. Medieval Western Europe
6. Renaissance and Reformation
Early Printing
Developing Trade and Practices
Volume and Distribution
Effects
Reading and the Impact of Print
7. Managing Information
Overabundance: The Growth in the Number and Size of Books
Tools for Managing Text: Layout and Paratexts
Tools for Managing Books
8. The Islamic World
Principles of Arabic Script
Early Manuscripts of the Qurʾan
The Transition to Paper
Deluxe Books with Illustrations
Other Forms and Formats
9. Enlightenment and Revolution
The Book Trade
Markets
Authorship
Censorship
Reading
Print and Revolution
The Triumph of the Book
10. South Asia
Oral Transmission and Public Performance
The Invention of Writing and Manuscript Production
The Impact of Printing Technologies
11. Industrialization
From Printing Firms to Publishing Houses
The Circulation of Books and the Internationalization of Publishing
Newspapers and Magazines
The Variety of Book Production
Educational and Children’s Publishing
Practical Books and Guidebooks
Publishing for a Mass Readership
Fiction
Retail
Advertising
Relations Between Authors, Publishers, and Printers
12. Modern China, Japan, and Korea
China
Japan
Korea
The Future of the Book in China, Japan, and Korea
13. Globalization
Copyright and Censorship
Authorship and Piracy
New Book Technologies
UNESCO and Decolonization
Global Books and Readers
14. Books Transformed
Abbreviations and Glossary
Further Reading
Picture Acknowledgements
Index
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