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Paper : paging through history / Mark Kurlansky.

by Kurlansky, Mark.

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W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Papermaking -- History.

Paper industry -- History.

Paper -- History.

9780393239614 (hc.)

xx, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references pages (347-354) and index.

Prologue: The technological fallacy -- Being human -- The moths that circle a Chinese candle -- The Islamic birth of literacy -- And where is Xátiva? -- Europe between two felts -- Making words soar -- The art of printing -- Out from Mainz -- Tenochtitlán and the blue-eyed devil -- The trumpet call -- Rembrandt's discovery -- The traitorous corruption of England -- Papering independence -- Diderot's promise -- Invitation from a wasp -- Advantages in the head -- To die like gentlemen -- Return to Asia -- Epilogue: change -- Appendix: Timeline.

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art. It has created civilizations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilizing of regimes. Witness history's greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of the Little Red Book: the Quotations from Chairman Mao, or the fact that Leonardo da Vinci left behind only 15 paintings but 4,000 works on paper. An examination of what paper has meant to civilization.

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