The History and Power of Writing

by Henri-Jean Martin

Book Overview

Cultural history on a grand scale, this immensely readable book--the summation of decades of study by one of the world's great scholars of the book--is the story of writing from its very beginnings to its recent transformations through technology.

Traversing four millennia, Martin offers a chronicle of writing as a cultural system, a means of communication, and a history of technologies. He shows how the written word originated, how it spread,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226508366
• ISBN13: 9780226508368
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"