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03035aam a2200397 i 4500 001 19A1E6EECD3411E4AB1298C9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150318010036 008 140721s2014 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014019958 020 $a 0745672531 020 $a 9780745672533 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d CHVBK $d OCLCF $d STF $d PUL $d TWC $d RIU $d SKYRV $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a TS1090 $b .M8513 2014 082 00 $a 676 $2 23 100 1 $a MuÌller, Lothar, $d 1954- $e author. 240 10 $a Weisse Magie. $l English 245 10 $a White magic : $b the age of paper / $c Lothar MuÌller ; translated by Jessica Spengler. 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b Polity Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xiv, 311 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Translated from the German. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-291) and index. 505 0 $a Leaves from Samarkand -- The rustling grows louder -- The universal substance -- The printed and the unprinted -- Adventurers and paper -- Transparent typography -- The demons of the paper machine -- Newsprint and the emergence of the popular press -- Illuminated inner worlds -- The inventory of modernity. 520 $a Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. As letters it became the setting for the invention of the modern soul, and as newsprint it became a stage for politics. In this brilliant new book Lothar MuÌller describes how paper made its way from China through the Arab world to Europe, where it permeated everyday life in a variety of formats from the thirteenth century onwards, and how the paper technology revolution of the nineteenth century paved the way for the creation of the modern daily press. His key witnesses are the works of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, Balzac and Herman Melville, James Joyce and Paul ValeÌry. MuÌller writes not only about books, however: he also writes about pamphlets, playing cards, papercutting and legal pads. We think we understand the Gutenberg era, but we can understand it better when we explore the world that underpinned it: the paper age.Today, with the proliferation of digital devices, paper may seem to be a residue of the past, but MuÌller shows that the humble technology of paper is in many ways the most fundamental medium of the modern world. 650 0 $a Paper $x History. 650 0 $a Papermaking $x History. 650 0 $a Paper industry $x History. 650 0 $a Printing $x History. 700 1 $a Spengler, Jessica, $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180110022313.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706044839.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=19A1E6EECD3411E4AB1298C9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search