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Clayton, Ewan.
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Written communication -- History.
Written communication -- Social aspects.
Writing -- History.
Writing -- Social aspects.
Writing -- Materials and instruments.
Literacy -- History.
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Clayton, Ewan.
Written communication -- History.
Written communication -- Social aspects.
Writing -- History.
Writing -- Social aspects.
Writing -- Materials and instruments.
Literacy -- History.
MARC Display
The golden thread : the story of
writing
/ Ewan Clayton.
by
Clayton, Ewan.
Counterpoint, [2014]
Call #:
302.2244 C622g
Subjects
Written communication
--
History.
Written communication
--
Social
aspects
.
Writing
--
History.
Writing
--
Social
aspects
.
Writing
--
Materials and instruments.
Literacy
--
History.
ISBN:
9781619022423 (hc.)
1619022427 (hc.)
Description:
407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Atlantic Books"--Title page verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-391) and index.
Contents:
Roman foundations
--
The convenience of the codex
--
Speaking through the senses
--
The New World : script and print
--
Turning the page : Reformation and renewal
--
Handwriting returns
--
Putting the world of the written word in order
--
The coming of industry
--
The Industrial Age
--
Revolutions-- in art and print
--
Alternative dreams
--
The material artefact.
Summary:
From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and animals in ancient Egypt, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century computer user, the story of
writing
is the story of human civilization itself. Ewan Clayton marks each step in the historical development of
writing
, and explores the
social
and cultural impact of every stage: the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using movable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century, and of the digital switchover at the century's close.
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