Los nombres del mundo : Una historia de la escritura

From the simple representational forms used in ancient Egypt to record bartering to the sophisticated typographic resources available on a 21st-century computer, we can say that the different periods in the evolution of writing shape the history of civilization itself. In *The Names of the World*, Ewan Clayton analyzes this evolution and explores its social and cultural impact: the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll by the codex in the late Roman period; the refinement of printing with movable type in the 15th century and the consequent spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing processes during the French Revolution; the impact of modernism on the written word in the early 20th century; and the significant changes that the digital age has brought to our writing habits at the beginning of this century.