{"product_id":"the-oxford-history-of-the-book","title":"The Oxford History of the Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Raven (editor)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 448 pages\u003cbr\u003e9780192886897\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history of the book is the history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated texts, their manufacture, distribution, and reception. Here are different types of production, from clay tablets to scrolls, from inscribed codices to printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers, from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination, all dependent on innovations in transport, from coastal and transoceanic shipping to roads, trains, planes and the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a history of different modes of reading and reception, from learned debate and individual study to public instruction and entertainment. It is a history of manufacture, craftsmanship, dissemination, reading and debate. Yet the history of books is not simply a question of material form, nor indeed of the history of reading and reception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe larger question is of the effect of textual production, distribution and reception - of how books themselves made history. To this end, each chapter of this volume, succinctly bounded by period and geography, offers incisive and stimulating insights into the relationship between books and the story of their times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40084510572579,"sku":"9780192886897","price":29.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/products\/DSC_3992.jpg?v=1689236262","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/the-oxford-history-of-the-book","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}