The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet /
Gnanadesikan, Amalia E.
The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan - Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 - xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm. - The language library .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index
The first IT revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one -- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers -- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years -- The empire of Sanskrit -- King Sejong's one-man renaissance -- Greek serendipity -- The age of Latin -- The alphabet meets the machine
1405154063 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405154062 (hardcover : alk. paper) RM318.42 1405154071 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405154079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Writing--History
Alphabet--History
The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan - Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 - xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm. - The language library .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index
The first IT revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one -- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers -- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years -- The empire of Sanskrit -- King Sejong's one-man renaissance -- Greek serendipity -- The age of Latin -- The alphabet meets the machine
1405154063 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405154062 (hardcover : alk. paper) RM318.42 1405154071 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405154079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Writing--History
Alphabet--History