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001 2015036988
003 DLC
005 20150923083532.0
008 150922s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015036988
020 $a9780307271662 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aTS1090$b.M65 2016
082 00 $a676$223
084 $aHIS039000$aTEC056000$aLAN010000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMonro, Alexander,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe paper trail :$ban unexpected history of a revolutionary invention /$cAlexander Monro.
250 $aFirst American Edition.
263 $a1602
264 1 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 0 $apcc
520 $a"Comprehensively researched, vividly written, The Paper Trail traces the cultural, political, and religious revolutions that this now globally ubiquitous material set in motion when it was new to the world. Alexander Monro--who has lived in, traveled through, studied, and written about China for many years--takes us from paper's refinement in 2nd century A.D. China, where it was used to solidify social and political systems that continue to influence the country today . . . to its use in the dissemination of the religions of Buddhism and Manichaeism . . . to its adoption in the Islamic world where it embedded the Koran in popular culture . . . to its role (together with printing) in the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution. It is a dramatic, surprising story populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, war-makers and peacekeepers--a story we have never heard in its entirety before, brilliantly told in this luminous work of history"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTracing Paper -- Alpha and Omega -- Preparing the Soil -- Genesis -- At the Margins -- Paper Rain -- Papyrocracy -- The Handover -- Bibliophiles -- Building Books -- A New Music -- Bagdatixon and its Ologies -- A Continent Divides -- Translating Europe -- A New Dialogue -- By the Cartload -- Epilogue : Fading Trails.
650 0 $aPapermaking$xHistory.
650 0 $aPaper$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Civilization.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy.$2bisacsh