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Monro, Alexander.
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Papermaking -- History.
Paper -- History.
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Monro, Alexander.
Papermaking -- History.
Paper -- History.
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The
paper
trail
: an
unexpected
history
of a
revolutionary
invention
/ Alexander Monro.
by
Monro, Alexander.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Call #:
676 M752p
Subjects
Papermaking --
History
.
Paper
--
History
.
ISBN:
9780307271662 (hc.)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
368 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary:
"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 . . . to its use in the dissemination of the religions of Buddhism and Manichaeism . . . to its adoption in the Islamic world where it embedded the Koran in popular culture . . . to its role (together with printing) in the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution. It is a dramatic, surprising story populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, war-makers and peacekeepers--a story we have never heard in its entirety before, brilliantly told in this luminous work of
history
"--From publisher.
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