History of the Book

• Autores: Jonathan Rose
• Localización: Encyclopedia of library and information sciences / coord. por Marcia J. Bates, Vol. 3, 2010 (Dublin-Information Literacy), págs. 2142-2147
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The history of the book is a new academic field that explores how books shape society and how society shapes books. It covers not only books per se but all kinds of documents, including manuscripts, periodicals, newspapers, and ephemera. It addresses the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, scribal and print production, publishing, bookselling, literary property, libraries, censorship, literary criticism, literacy, and reading