TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monro,Alexander
TI  - The paper trail: an unexpected history of a revolutionary invention 
SN  - 9780307271662 (hardback)
AV  - TS1090 .M65 2016
U1  - 676 MON 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Papermaking
KW  - History
KW  - Paper
KW  - Written communication
KW  - HISTORY / Civilization
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pcc; Tracing Paper -- Alpha and Omega -- Preparing the Soil -- Genesis -- At the Margins -- Paper Rain -- Papyrocracy -- The Handover -- Bibliophiles -- Building Books -- A New Music -- Bagdatixon and its Ologies -- A Continent Divides -- Translating Europe -- A New Dialogue -- By the Cartload -- Epilogue : Fading Trails
N2  - "Comprehensively researched, vividly written, The Paper Trail traces the cultural, political, and religious revolutions that this now globally ubiquitous material set in motion when it was new to the world. Alexander Monro--who has lived in, traveled through, studied, and written about China for many years--takes us from paper's refinement in 2nd century A.D. China, where it was used to solidify social and political systems that continue to influence the country today . . . to its use in the dissemination of the religions of Buddhism and Manichaeism . . . to its adoption in the Islamic world where it embedded the Koran in popular culture . . . to its role (together with printing) in the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution. It is a dramatic, surprising story populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, war-makers and peacekeepers--a story we have never heard in its entirety before, brilliantly told in this luminous work of history"--
ER  -