# The History and Power of Writing, Vol. 1

By **Henri-Jean Martin**

- ISBN-13: 9780226508351
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 608
- Published: 16 May 1994

## About this book

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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