The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making - Softcover

Johns, Adrian

 
9780226401225: The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226401227 ISBN 13: 9780226401225
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas--commercial, intellectual, political, and individual.

"A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England."--Alberto Manguel, Washington Times

"[A] mammoth and stimulating account of the place of print in the history of knowledge. . . . Johns has written a tremendously learned primer."--D. Graham Burnett, New Republic

"A detailed, engrossing, and genuinely eye-opening account of the formative stages of the print culture. . . . This is scholarship at its best."--Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor

"The most lucid and persuasive account of the new kind of knowledge produced by print. . . . A work to rank alongside McLuhan."--John Sutherland, The Independent

"Entertainingly written. . . . The most comprehensive account available . . . well documented and engaging."--Ian Maclean, Times Literary Supplement

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Adrian Johns is the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226401227
ISBN 13 
9780226401225
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
776
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