M P Mcdermott

Official Register of the United States

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1889
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register of the United States

• Author(s): United States. Department of the Interior

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1879
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Demonstration in Honour of the Fortieth Anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's Entrance Into Public Life

• Author(s): Liberal-Conservative Party. Convention

• Categories: Canada

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1885
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• Publisher: s.n.], 1885 (Toronto : Printed by the Canadian Manufacturer Publishing Company)

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Official Register of the United States, Containing a List of the Officers and Empoyes in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service on the First of July, 1889; Together with a List of Vessels Belonging to the United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1891
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• Publisher: Unknown

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A Social History of the Chinese Book

• Author(s): Joseph P. McDermott

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2006-04-01
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• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

In this learned, yet readable, book, Joseph McDermott introduces the history of the book in China in the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800. He assumes little knowledge of Chinese history or culture and compares the Chinese experience with books with that of other civilizations, particularly the European. Yet he deals with a wide range of issues in the history of the book in China and presents novel analyses of the changes in Chinese woodblock bookmaking over these centuries. He presents a new view of when the printed book replaced the manuscript and what drove that substitution. He explores the distribution and marketing structure of books, and writes fascinatingly on the history of boo...