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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800

By Henri-Jean Martin , Lucien Febvre

Book information

Publisher
NLB
Year
1976
ISBN
1859841082, 9781859841082
Open Library ID
OL8624084M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25279720 bytes)
Pages
388\388
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.

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