An edited volume mapping the history of the book, from the Ancient World through to the rapidly changing world of the book in the second decade of the 21st century.

• 1: James Raven: Introduction


• 2: Eleanor Robson: The Ancient World


• 3: Barbara Crostini: Byzantium


• 4: Cynthia Brokaw: Medieval and Early Modern East Asia


• 5: David Rundle: Western Europe, c. 450-c.1450


• 6: James Raven and Goran Proot: Renaissance and Reformation


• 7: Ann Blair: Managing Information


• 8: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom: The Islamic World


• 9: Jeffrey Freedman: Enlightenment and Revolution


• 10: Graham Shaw: South Asia


• 11: Marie-Françoise Cachin: Industrialization


• 12: Christopher A. Reed and M. William Steele: Modern China, Japan and Korea


• 13: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén: Globalization


• 14: Jeffrey T. Schnapp: Books Transformed


• Glossary


• Further Reading


• Acknowledgements


• Acknowledgements


• Index

James Raven is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Formerly he was Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College. He is the author, editor and co-editor of numerous books in early modern and modern British, European and colonial history, including Judging New Wealth (1992); The Practice and Representation of Reading (1996); The English Novel 1770-1829 (2000); Free Print and Non-Commercial Publishing (2000); London Booksellers and American Customers (2002); Lost Libraries (2004); The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade (2007); Books between Europe and the Americas (2011); Publishing Business (2014) and Bookscape: Geographies of Printing and Publishing in London before 1800 (2014).