Reinventing Knowledge

From Alexandria to the Internet

By: Ian F. McNeely, Lisa Wolverton (As told to)

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Paperback | 1 September 2009 | Edition Number 1

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The debut work of two young, bright, original historians, this is a nimble dash through the pivot points of cultural change in the history of the West. With their focus on how societies produce, preserve, and transmit knowledge, the authors set us down at points of transformation: the classical world's great library at Alexandria, the monastery in the cultural wilderness after Rome's collapse, the university of the thriving medieval cities, the Enlightenment's republic of letters, the laboratory of the industrial nineteenth century, and of course the multimedia world of cyberspace. Each discussion is full of historical insight, vivid detail, and lively characters, with comparative excursions into China or the world of Islam. The authors show knowledge to be as much about connecting people as it is about collecting information. Altogether this is an exhilarating, brilliantly concise history of the changing forms of knowledge.

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A magnificent overview of the history of knowledge production in the West.-- "Times Higher Education"

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