PDF-[READ]-On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History

A Bloomberg News Best Book of the YearA consideration of all things paperits invention that revolutionized human civilization its thousandfold uses and misuses proliferation and sweeping influence on society its makers shapers collectors and pulperswritten by the admired cultural historian and author of the trilogy on all things bookrelated A Gentle Madness Patience and Fortitude How could any intelligent literate person not just love this bookSimon Winchester and A Splendor of Letters Elegant wry and humaneAndré Bernard New York Observer Nicholas Basbanes writes about paper from its invention in China two thousand years ago to its ideal means recording the thoughts of Islamic scholars and mathematicians that made the Middle East a center of intellectual energy from Europe by way of Spain in the twelfth century and Italy in the thirteenth at the time of the Renaissance to North America and the rest of the inhabited world Basbanes writes about the ways in which paper has been used to record history make laws conduct business and establish identities He makes clear that without paper modern hygienic practice would be unimaginable that as currency people will do almost anything to possess it that the Industrial Revolution would never have happened without paper on which to draw designs and blueprints We see papers crucial role in the unfolding of historical events political scandals and sensational trials how the American Revolution which took shape with the Battle of Lexington and Concord began with the Stamp Act of 1765 the Dreyfus Affair and the forged memorandum known as the bordereau Americas entry into World War I with the Zimmerman Telegram the Alger Hiss spy case and Whittaker Chamberss testimony involving the notorious Pumpkin Papers Daniel Ellsbergs release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the scandal of Watergate Basbanes writes of his travels to get to the source of the storyto China along the Burma Road and to Japan whose handmade paper washi is as much an expression of the human spirit as it is of craftsmanship to Landover Maryland home of the National Security Agency and its one hundred million ultra secret documents pulped by cryptologists and sent to be recycled as pizza boxes and egg cartons to the Crane Paper mill of Dalton Massachusetts a seventhgeneration familyowned enterprise the exclusive supplier of paper for American currency since 1879 and to the KimberlyClark mill in New Milford Connecticut manufacturer daily of one million boxes of Kleenex tissue and as many rolls of Scott kitchen towelsEntertaining illuminating irresistible a book that masterfully guides us through papers inseparability from human culture From the Hardcover edition. 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