The writing revolution cuneiform to the Internet Gnanadesikan, Amalia E. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. enk Chichester, U.K Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell 2009 monographic eng
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xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps. 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. Amalia E. Gnanadesikan. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Writing History Alphabet History P211 .G58 2009eb 411.09 Language library http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10298100 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10298100 CaPaEBR 080327 ebr10298100