From Grave-Robbers to Gutenberg: A Global History of Paper

The books you read have an illustrious past. Take a trip through China, Japan and beyond for a global history of paper from lanterns to watermarks. In his book "Paper: Paging Through History," Mark Kurlansky uses the history of paper to disprove what he calls the technological fallacy. Technology does not change society, but rather the opposite.
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