Ebook: A Companion to the History of the Book

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.

• Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts
  
• Written by a group of expert contributors
  
• Covers topical debates, such as the nature of censorship and the future of the book

Content:
Chapter 1 Why Bibliography Matters (pages 7–20): T. H. Howard?Hill
Chapter 2 What is Textual Scholarship? (pages 21–32): David Greetham
Chapter 3 The Uses of Quantification (pages 33–49): Alexis Weedon
Chapter 4 Readers: Books and Biography (pages 50–62): Stephen Colclough
Chapter 5 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia (pages 63–83): Eleanor Robson
Chapter 6 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome (pages 84–94): Cornelia Roemer
Chapter 7 China (pages 95–110): J. S. Edgren
Chapter 8 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam (pages 111–126): Peter Kornicki
Chapter 9 South Asia (pages 126–137): Graham Shaw
Chapter 10 Latin America (pages 138–152): Hortensia Calvo
Chapter 11 The Hebraic Book (pages 153–164): Emile G. L. Schrijver
Chapter 12 The Islamic Book (pages 165–176): Michael Albin
Chapter 13 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100 (pages 177–193): Michelle P. Brown
Chapter 14 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500 (pages 194–206): M. T. Clanchy
Chapter 15 The Gutenberg Revolutions (pages 207–219): Lotte Hellinga
Chapter 16 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century (pages 220–231): David J. Shaw
Chapter 17 The British Book Market 1600–1800 (pages 232–246): John Feather
Chapter 18 Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800 (pages 247–258): Rietje van Vliet
Chapter 19 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800 (pages 259–272): Russell L. Martin
Chapter 20 The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970 (pages 273–290): Rob Banham
Chapter 21 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800–1890 (pages 291–302): Simon Eliot
Chapter 22 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890 (pages 303–314): Jean?Yves Mollier and Marie?Franqise Cachin
Chapter 23 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800–1890 (pages 315–328): Robert A. Gross
Chapter 24 The Globalization of the Book 1800–1970 (pages 329–340): David Finkelstein
Chapter 25 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890–1970 (pages 341–353): Jonathan Rose
Chapter 26 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890–1970 (pages 354–367): Adriaan van der Weel
Chapter 27 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890–1970 (pages 368–380): Beth Luey
Chapter 28 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970–2000 (pages 381–394): Paul Luna
Chapter 29 The Global Market 1970–2000: Producers (pages 395–405): Eva Hemmungs Wirten
Chapter 30 The Global Market 1970–2000: Consumers (pages 406–418): Claire Squires
Chapter 31 Periodicals and Periodicity (pages 419–433): James Wald
Chapter 32 The Importance of Ephemera (pages 434–450): Martin Andrews
Chapter 33 The New Textual Technologies (pages 451–463): Charles Chadwyck?Healey
Chapter 34 New Histories of Literacy (pages 465–479): Patricia Crain
Chapter 35 Some Non?Textual Uses of Books (pages 480–492): Rowan Watson
Chapter 36 The Book as Art (pages 493–507): Megan L. Benton
Chapter 37 Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity (pages 508–519): Deana Heath
Chapter 38 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property (pages 520–530): John Feather
Chapter 39 Libraries and the Invention of Information (pages 531–543): Wayne A. Wiegand
Chapter 40 Does the Book Have a Future? (pages 545–559): Angus Phillips