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Paperback The History and Power of Writing Book

ISBN: 0226508366

ISBN13: 9780226508368

The History and Power of Writing

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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,...

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