The History and Power of Writing
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- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 608
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
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The story
This text is a study of writing from its very beginnings to its recent transformations through technology.
Traversing four millennia, the author 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 and how it
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