Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History by William J. Bernstein

Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History

William J. Bernstein

448 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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A “riveting and thoroughly researched” history of language technology’s effect on society across millennia—from Sumerian syntax to social media hashtags (Phil Lapsley). Writing was born thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. Spreading to Sumer, an...

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