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.

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).

• 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: Medieval Western Europe


• 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


• Abbreviations and Glossary


• Further Reading


• Picture Acknowledgements


• Index