From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.
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 formed the foundation of
civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. One has
only to look at history’s greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion
copies of Máo zhuxí yulu, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)―
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Details Paper: Paging Through History
| Title | Paper: Paging Through History |
| Author | Mark Kurlansky |
| Release Date | 10th May 2016 |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| ISBN-10 | 0393239616 |
| Format | Deckle Edge |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 416 pages |
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