Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet

by William J. Bernstein

Book Overview

William J. Bernstein's A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World , an Economist and Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians like Jared Diamond and Bill Bryson, capable of distilling major trends and reams of information into insightful, globe-spanning popular narrative. Bernstein explains how new communication technologies and in particular our access to them, impacted human society. Writing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802121381
• ISBN13: 9780802121387
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"