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02707aam a22004098i 4500 001 6F76A9E8F89811E5ADB809B8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160402010147 008 150922s2016 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015036988 020 $a 0307271668 020 $a 9780307271662 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a TS1090 $b .M65 2016 082 00 $a 676 $2 23 100 1 $a Monro, Alexander, $e author. 245 14 $a The paper trail : $b an unexpected history of a revolutionary invention / $c Alexander Monro. 250 $a First American Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Knopf, $c 2016. 300 $a 368 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, ...in 2014" -- copyright page. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Papermaking $x History. 650 0 $a Paper $x History. 941 $a 8 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092416.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200528061846.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204082823.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110064731.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217022907.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20180118010244.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20160602015449.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160513010150.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6F76A9E8F89811E5ADB809B8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search