This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century-the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass-placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between...

Start up arrivals -- Endless frontier -- Golden state -- Shoot the moon -- Networked -- The money men arrivals -- Boom and bust -- Product launch arrivals -- The olympics of capitalism -- Power to the people -- The personal machine -- Homebrewed -- Unforgettable -- Risky business -- Go public...