The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
Series: Publication details: Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Description: xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 1405154063 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781405154062 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1405154071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781405154079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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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
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