The History and Power of Writing
Martin, Henri-Jean / Cochrane, Lydia G.
ForewordPierre ChaunuAcknowledgments1: Writing Systems2: The Written and the Spoken Word3: Speech and Letters4: The Death and Resurrection of Written Culture5: The Arrival of Print6: The Reign of the Book7: The Forms and Functions of Writing: Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries8: The Book and Society9: The Industrial Era10: Beyond WritingConclusionNotesIndex