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Index, A History of the 2022
Index, A History of the is a 2022 book written by Dennis Duncan that explores the evolution of indexes. The book tells how indexes have developed from medieval manuscripts to the digital age. Duncan argues that indexes give readers a proper way to begin a book from the back. He uses a comparison to Jonathan Swift's Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. This practice resembles "travellers entering a palace through the privy".
Details
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN
- 9781324002543
- Pages
- 352
