Bierman considers how the Fatimid rulers used public writing to present their own ideology to different members of society in Cairo in the 10th to 12th centurie

By treating writing as an independent mode of communication, based on the use of spatial relations to connect events separated in time, the author shows how oth

This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation, exploring writings that deflect attention from language.

Nineteenth-century periodicals frequently compared themselves to the imperial powers then dissecting the globe, and this interest in imperialism can be seen in