The problematics of print -- Scripts and manuscripts -- Transmitting the word in South Asia -- Transmitting the word in Africa -- Resistance and adaptation -- Communication and authority -- Licensed policeman and literary protestors -- The power of the consumer
Summary
"Though the subject of book history enjoys diverse roots - several French, some British and American - its main guiding lights have been drawn from half a millennuim's experience of print culture in the West." "Properly to account for the origins, developments and proliferation of verbal diffusion in a global environmnet we require a number of drastic readjustments of vision, entailing ... a radical questioning of what we mean by a book, or indeed by a text." --pref
Notes
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-201) and index
