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The historians who contributed to The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book are all distinguished authorities in their field. They are:

Ann Blair , Harvard University

Sheila S. Blair , Boston College and Virginia Commonwealth University

Jonathan M. Bloom , Boston College and Virginia Commonwealth University

Cynthia Brokaw , Brown University

Marie - Franoise Cachin , Universit Paris Diderot Paris VII

Barbara Crostini , Uppsala University

Jeffrey Freedman , Yeshiva University

Goran Proot , University of Milan

James Raven , University of Cambridge

Christopher A. Reed , The Ohio State University

Eleanor Robson , University College London

David Rundle , University of Kent

Jeffrey T. Schnapp , Harvard University

Graham Shaw , University of London

M. William Steele , International Christian University, Tokyo

Eva Hemmungs Wirtn , Linkping University

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Contents

Introduction
James Raven

The Ancient World
Eleanor Robson

Byzantium
Barbara Crostini

Medieval and Early Modern East Asia
Cynthia Brokaw

Medieval Western Europe
David Rundle

Renaissance and Reformation
James Raven and Goran Proot

Managing Information
Ann Blair

The Islamic World
Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom

Enlightenment and Revolution
Jeffrey Freedman

South Asia
Graham Shaw

Industrialization
Marie-Franoise Cachin

Modern China, Japan, and Korea
Christopher A. Reed and M. William Steele

Globalization
Eva Hemmungs Wirtn

Books Transformed
Jeffrey T. Schnapp

Chapter 1 (James Raven)
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Chapter 2 (Eleanor Robson)
Chapter 3 (Barbara Crostini)
Chapter 4 (Cynthia Brokaw)
Chapter 5 (David Rundle)
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Chapter 6 (James Raven and Goran Proot)
Chapter 7 (Ann Blair)
Chapter 8 (Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom)
Chapter 9 (Jeffrey Freedman)
Chapter 10 (Graham Shaw)
Chapter 11 (Marie-Franoise Cachin)
Chapter 12 (Christopher A. Reed and M. William Steele)
Chapter 13 (Eva Hemmungs Wirtn)
Chapter 14 (Jeffrey T. Schnapp)
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Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University where she teaches early modern European cultural and intellectual history and book history. She is especially interested in the history of intellectual practices. Her publications include The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Princeton, 1997) and Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (New Haven, 2010).
Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom shared the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Jointly and individually they are the authors, co-authors, or editors of many books and articles on various aspects of Islamic art and architecture. Sheila Blair is particularly interested in calligraphy in the Islamic lands and the arts of the book in the Mongol period, and is the author of the prize-winning book Islamic Calligraphy (Edinburgh, 2008). Jonathan Bloom is particularly interested in the history of paper in the Islamic lands and Europe, and is the author of the prize-winning book Paper before Print (New Haven, 2001).
Cynthia Brokaw is Professor of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. A scholar of late imperial Chinese history, she specializes in the history of the pre-modern Chinese book. Her Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods is a study of a rural publishing industry, its distribution networks, and its impact on book culture in south China. She has also co-edited two essay collections on Chinese book history, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China (with Kai-wing Chow; Boston, MA, 2007), and From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008 (with Christopher A. Reed; Leiden, 2010).
Marie-Franoise Cachin, Professor Emerita, Universit Paris Diderot Paris VII, is a specialist in modern publishing history and the transnational circulation of books. She was for several years in charge of Le livre et ldition dans le monde anglophone, a group researching book publishing in English-speaking countries. Her publications include studies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century presses and Anglo-French literary and publishing relationships and her most recent book is Une nation de lecteurs? La lecture en Angleterre, 18151945 (Lyon, 2010).
Barbara Crostini is Associate Professor in Byzantine Greek at the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has worked extensively with Greek manuscripts, producing a catalogue at the Bodleian Library (2003) and working on digital descriptions for Trinity College Library, Dublin, and for the online catalogue of Greek manuscripts in Sweden (www.manuscripta.se.) Her online edition of a Greek psalter with catena commentary at the Vatican Library was sponsored by the Bank of Sweden through the Ars edendi programme at Stockholm University. She co-curated the volumes A Book of Psalms from Eleventh-Century Byzantium: The Complex of Texts and Images in Psalter Vat. gr. 752, with G. Peers, Studi e Testi
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