The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450 - 1800
Author(s): Lucien Fevre, Henri-Jean Martin
The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of modes of consciousness to root the development of printing in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.
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It ranks easily among the most consequential works of recent French scholarship.A" Times Literary Supplement It is one of the most exciting scholarly books ever written on printing ... This book is serious work--marvellously rich and stimulating.A" Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times
Lucien Febvre, who died in 1956, was cofounder of the influential journal Annales, and is widely recognized as one of the foremost historians of the twentieth century. Henri-Jean Martin is a distinguished historian of the development of early printing.
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- : Verso Books
- : Verso Books
- : 0.612
- : 01 July 2010
- : 231mm X 152mm X 28mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lucien Fevre, Henri-Jean Martin
- : Paperback
- : 3
- : 686.2094
- : 378
