Kurlansky Mark. Paper: paging through history

W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN13: 978-0393353709.From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. By tracing paper’s evolution from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the contributions made in Asia and the Middle East, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology’s influence, affirming that paper is here to stay. Paper will be the commodity history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times.The technological fallacy
Being human
The moths that circle a chinese candle
The islamic birth of literacy
And where is xativa?
Europe between two felts
Making words soar
The art of printing
Out from mainz
Tenochtitlan and the blue-eyed devil
The trumpet call
Rembrandt’s discovery
The traitorous corruption of england
Papering independence
Diderot’s promise
Invitation from a wasp
Advantages in the head
To die like gentlemen
Return to Asia
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