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Writing on the Wall

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Writing on the Wall

By Tom Standage

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About the book

Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Cicero's Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. Standage traces the story of the rise, fall ...Show more

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9781408842089

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2014

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1

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Writing on the Wall

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Paperback

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