Why bibliography matters /T.H. Howard-Hill - What is textual scholarship? /David Greetham - The uses of quantification /Alexis Weedon - Readers : books and biography /Stephen Colclough - The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia /Eleanor Robson - The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome /Cornelia Roemer - China /J.S. Edgren - Japan, Korea, and Vietnam /Peter Kornicki - South Asia /Graham Shaw - Latin America /Hortensia Calvo - The Hebraic book /Emile G.L. Schrijver - The Islamic book /Michael Albin - The triumph of the codex : the manuscript book before 1100 /Michelle P. Brown - Parchment and paper : manuscript culture 1100-1500 /M.T. Clanchy - The Gutenberg revolutions /Lotte Hellinga - The book trade comes of age : the sixteenth century /David J. Shaw --The British book market 1600-1800 /John Feather - Print and public in Europe 1600-1800 /Rietje van Vliet - North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 /Russell L. Martin III - The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 /Rob Banham - From few and expensive to many and cheap : the British book market 1800-1890 /Simon Eliot - A continent of texts : Europe 1800-1890 /Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Francoise Cachin - Building a national literature : the United States 1800-1890 /Robert A. Gross - The globalization of the book 1800-1970 /David Finkelstein - Modernity and print I : Britain 1890-1970 /Jonathan Rose - Modernity and print II : Europe 1890-1970 /Adriaan van der Weel --Modernity and print III : the United States 1890-1970 /Beth Luey - Books and bits : texts and technology 1970-2000 /Paul Luna - The global market 1970-2000 : producers /Eva Hemmungs Wirten - The global market 1970-2000 : consumers /Claire Squires - eriodicals and periodicity /James Wald - The importance of ephemera /Martin Andrews - The new textual technologies /Charles Chadwyck-Healey - New histories of literacy /Patricia Crain - Some non-textual uses of books /Rowan Watson - The book as art /Megan L. Benton - Obscenity, censorship, and modernity /Deana Heath - Copyright and the creation of literary property /John Feather - Libraries and the invention of information /Wayne A. Wiegand - Does the book have a future? /Angus Phillips