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Flanders, Judith.
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Alphabet -- History
Alphabetizing -- History.
Alphabetizing.
Information organization.
Civilization, Western.
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Flanders, Judith.
Alphabet -- History
Alphabetizing -- History.
Alphabetizing.
Information organization.
Civilization, Western.
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A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order / Judith Flanders.
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Flanders, Judith.
Basic Books, 2020.
Call #:
025
.3177
F584p
Subjects
Alphabet -- History
Alphabetizing -- History.
Alphabetizing.
Information organization.
Civilization, Western.
ISBN:
9781541675070 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Curious history of alphabetical order
Edition:
1st US ed.
Description:
xxviii, 319 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-299) and index.
Summary:
"Judith Flanders, a social historian discusses the history of alphabetization from the Library of Alexandria to our iPhone contacts. Alphabetical order and its story have been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as enthusiastic early adopter, Samuel Pepys and dedicated aphabet champion Denis Diderot. George Washington was also a proponent , though many other Americans clung to older, less equal forms of classification: Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. Today, the order of the alphabet rules via libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- and yet it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z."
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