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History Of Writing
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Author : Steven R. Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2003
History Of Writing written by Steven R. Fischer and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
We learn about it from our parents and teachers, we get better at it as we grow up, and in adult life we do it without a thought - writing.
The Writing Revolution
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Author : Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-09-13
The Writing Revolution written by Amalia E. Gnanadesikan and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this communication tool to show how it has conquered the world. Explores how writing has liberated the world, making possible everything from complex bureaucracy, literature, and science, to instruction manuals and love letters Draws on an engaging range of examples, from the first cuneiform clay tablet, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Japanese syllabaries, to the printing press and the text messaging Weaves together ideas from a number of fields, including history, cultural studies and archaeology, as well as linguistics and literature, to create an interdisciplinary volume Traces the origins of each of the world’s major written traditions, along with their applications, adaptations, and cultural influences
Writing History In The Digital Age
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Author : Jack Dougherty
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Writing History In The Digital Age written by Jack Dougherty and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with History categories.
A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish
A History Of Writing In Japan
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Author : Christopher Seeley
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2000-04-01
A History Of Writing In Japan written by Christopher Seeley and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-01 with History categories.
This book deals chronologically with the history of writing in Japan, a subject which spans a period of 2,000 years, beginning with the transmission of writing from China in about the first or second century AD, and concluding with the use of written Japanese with computers. Topics dealt with include the adoption of Chinese writing and its subsequent adaptation in Japan, forms of writing employed in works such as the "Kojiki" and "Man'yoshu," development of the "kana" syllabaries, evolution of mixed character-"kana" orthography, historical "kana" usage, the rise of literacy during the Edo period, and the main changes that have taken place in written Japanese in the modern period (ca. 1868 onwards). This is the first full-length work in a European language to provide the Western reader with an overall account of the subject concerned, based on extensive examination of both primary and secondary materials.
A History Of Writing
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Author : Anne-Marie Christin
language : en
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Release Date : 2002
A History Of Writing written by Anne-Marie Christin and has been published by Flammarion-Pere Castor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
"Art does not produce the visible but makes visible," wrote Paul Klee. This work examines and reinterprets this important principle-- writing does not reproduce speech, it makes it visible-- through an in-depth history of writing across the globe, from ancient civilization to the modern day. "A History of Writing" analyzes the role of the image in writing from three perspectives: * Part one is devoted to the oldest, non-alphabetic methods of writing, and to the ingenious developments devised by civilizations that chose to adapt them to their language and culture: from the ancient development of cuneiform script in southern Mesopotamia, to the intricate ideographic scripts of China and Japan, or the still-to-be-deciphered rongo-rongo script of Easter Island. * Part two focuses on the history and dissemination of alphabets, examining the origins of the Western semitic alphabet and its "sister" Arabic alphabet script, through to the lesser-known scripts of the Caucasus or of sub-Saharan Africa. * Part three, finally, examines the reincorporation of imagery into the Western alphabet, looking at various hand-written and printed forms, from the sumptuous illuminations of the "Book of Kells" to the rise of printing and of typographic forms in modern times, leading to questions over how different writing systems are now adapting in a world that is increasingly dominated by computer technology. In total, fifty-eight lavishly illustrated chapters present detailed yet accessible commentaries from a team of leading specialists in the study of writing. Together they explain and clarify the birth, evolution, and dissemination of over thirty key scripts and alphabets and theirnumerous derivatives. The breadth and scope of material covered, along with the detailed sources of documentation provided, make "A History of Writing" an essential and exciting new contribution to existing scholarship on this fascinating subject. With contributions from: Michel Amandry, Jacques André , Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Catherine Bizot, Franç ois Bizot, Daniel Bouchez, Jean Boulè gue, Dominique Briquel, Claire Bustarret, Nina Catach, Dominique Charpin, Roger Chartier, Anne-Marie Christin, Cé cile Dauphin, Michel Davoust, Franç ois Dé roche, Franç ois-Xavier Dillmann, Catherine Dobias-Lalou, Jean-Piere Drè ge, Jean-Marie Durand, Bé atrice Fraenkel, Pascal Griolet, Michaë l Guichard, Bertrand Hirsch, Yves Jeanneret, Pierre-Yves Lambert, Daniè le Lavallé e, André Lemaire, Sé golè ne Le Men, Franç ois Lissarrague, Jean-Pierre Mahé , Henri-Jean Martin, Charles Mopsik, Nguyen Phu Phong, Jean-Pierre Olivier, Jennifer O'Reilly, Michel Parisse, Armando Petrucci, Jacqueline Pigeot, Georges-Jean Pinault, René Ponot, Annie Renonciat, Daniel Roche, Cé cile Sakai, Marianne Simon-Oikawa, Martine Simonin, Darwin Smith, Emmanuel Souchier, Jacqueline Sublet, Marc Thouvenot, Lé on Vandermeersch, Pascal Vernus, Vladimir Vodoff
The Golden Thread
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Author : Ewan Clayton
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-09-05
The Golden Thread written by Ewan Clayton and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with History categories.
The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and animals in ancient Egypt, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century computer user, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. Ewan Clayton marks each step in the historical development of writing, and explores the social and cultural impact of every stage: the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century - and of the digital switchover at the century's close. The Golden Thread raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief amongst these is the fundamental question: 'What does it mean to be literate in the world of the early twenty-first century?' The Golden Thread belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is inquisitive not just about the centrality of writing in the history of humanity, but also about its future.
The First Writing
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Author : Stephen D. Houston
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-09
The First Writing written by Stephen D. Houston and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-09 with History categories.
In this book, leading scholars in the field discuss and analyse the origins of ancient writing.
Writing History
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Author : Matthias van Rossum
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Writing History written by Matthias van Rossum and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Education categories.
Historians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research; how do you get a good historical question? How do you engage with the literature? How do you work with sources from the past, from archives to imagery and objects, art, or landscapes? What is the influence of digitalisation of the historical craft? Broad in scope, 'Writing History!' also addresses historians' traditional support of policy makers and their activity in fields of public history, such as museums, the media, and the leisure sector, and offers support for developing the necessary skills for this wide range of professions.
The Writing Of History
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Author : Michel de Certeau
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1988
The Writing Of History written by Michel de Certeau and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
From the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's Moses and Monotheism, de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the role and nature of history.