White magic : the age of paper
Lothar Müller (Author), Jessica Spengler (Translator)
Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprintedstate it was the great network medium behind the emergence ofmodern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes andaccounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms andfiles it was essential to bureaucracy. As letters it became thesetting for the invention of the modern soul, and as newsprint itbecame a stage for politics. In this brilliant new book LotharMüller describes how paper made its way from China through theArab world to Europe, where it permeated everyday life in a varietyof formats from the thirteenth c
eBook, English, 2014
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2014