The Pen And The People

Author : Susan Whyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199532443
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pen and the People written by Susan Whyman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, 'The Pen and the People' will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people.

Author : Anne Trubek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620402157
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting written by Anne Trubek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history, however, shows how much it has affected culture and civilization for millennia. In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock’s elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication. Now, in The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years ago and the invention of the alphabet as we know it, to the rising value of handwritten manuscripts today. Each innovation over the millennia has threatened existing standards and entrenched interests: Indeed, in ancient Athens, Socrates and his followers decried the very use of handwriting, claiming memory would be destroyed; while Gutenberg’s printing press ultimately overturned the livelihood of the monks who created books in the pre-printing era. And yet new methods of writing and communication have always appeared. Establishing a novel link between our deep past and emerging future, Anne Trubek offers a colorful lens through which to view our shared social experience.

Author : Susan E. Whyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pen and the People written by Susan E. Whyman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, 'The Pen and the People' will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people.

Author : Susan E. Whyman
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198207191
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England written by Susan E. Whyman and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work seeks to contribute to our understanding of social networks and hierarchies of the Stuart period. Destabilizing established stereotypes of omnipotent patriarchs and powerless wives, the book offers a view revealing more subtle power-play.

Author : E. Randolph Richards
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830827886
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul and First-Century Letter Writing written by E. Randolph Richards and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2004-10-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by the historical evidence and with a sharp eye for telltale clues in the Apostle Paul's letters, E. Randolph Richards takes us into his world and places us on the scene with Paul the letter writer offering a glimpse that overthrows our preconceptions and offers a new perspective on how this important portion of Christian Scripture came to be.

Author : Maaike van Berkel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004315713
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives written by Maaike van Berkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two additional concise chapters provide a focused analysis of the construction of specific dynasties (the Golden Horde and the Habsburgs) and narratives of kingship found in fiction throughout Eurasia. The contributors and editors, authorities in their fields, systematically bring together specialised literature on numerous Eurasian kingdoms and empires. This book is a careful and thought-provoking experiment in the global, comparative and connected history of rulers and elites.

Author : Caroline Archer-Parré
Publisher : Eighteenth Century Worlds Lup
ISBN 13 : 1789622301
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pen, Print and Communication in the Eighteenth Century written by Caroline Archer-Parré and published by Eighteenth Century Worlds Lup. This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides an original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.

Author : Ali Alkholify
Publisher : Ali Alkholify
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge with the pen written by Ali Alkholify and published by Ali Alkholify. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the sake of science and knowledge, for the sake of one human civilization that does not exclude anyone, for the sake of common sense and the right heart, for the sake of one world that worships one God, for the sake of one family and one nation, with all love and appreciation, we have placed this book in your hands

Author : Foreningen for højskoler og landbrugsskoler (Denmark)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Danish People's High-school written by Foreningen for højskoler og landbrugsskoler (Denmark) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's Condensed Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: