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The Paper Trail An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
by [Monro, Alexander]
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The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself.
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Product Details
- Vintage Brand
- Feb 21, 2017 Pub Date:
- 9780307456694 ISBN-13:
- 0307456692 ISBN-10:
- 384.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 1 in * 5.2 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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