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History of the Book in Canada: Volume One: Beginnings to 1840 Hardcover - 2004
by Patricia Lockhart Fleming (Editor); Gilles Gallichan (Editor); Yvan Lamonde (Editor)
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It is a common assumption that there is a correlation between the rise of organized knowledge and the development of some adequate form of writing, which, in turn, is assumed to require phonetic articulation.
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- Title History of the Book in Canada: Volume One: Beginnings to 1840
- Author Patricia Lockhart Fleming (Editor); Gilles Gallichan (Editor); Yvan Lamonde (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 500
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Toronto Press, Toronto
- Date August 30, 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780802089434 / 0802089437
- Weight 3.15 lbs (1.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.98 x 7 x 1.86 in (25.35 x 17.78 x 4.72 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Library of Congress subjects Books - Canada - History, Books and reading - Canada - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005270033
- Dewey Decimal Code 002.097
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- American Reference Bks Annual, 01/01/2006, Page 304
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8vo, XXIX, 540p., ill., cloth, dj, As newjn 1997, a team of historians, librarians, and literary scholars from across the country joined the growing number of researchers around the world studying print culture on a national scale and took up the task of producing a history for Canada. Volume one of the History of the Book in Canada – the first of three volumes in this collaborative project – examines the role of print in the political, religious, intellectual, and cultural life of the colonies that eventually became Canada.This volume begins with Aboriginal peoples who maintained their stories and history both orally and in writing. When Europeans arrived, the printing press was not yet a century old, but once printing began in Halifax in 1752, it spread rapidly. Printers set up shops through the eastern provinces, in Quebec and Ontario, and by 1840, as far west as a mission near Lake Winnipeg. Their productions were largely utilitarian: newspapers, handbills, almanacs, textbooks, and works of…
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