Documents That Changed the Way We Live

by Joseph Janes

Book Overview

Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories that describe these documents; their creation, motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538100339
• ISBN13: 9781538100332
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"