
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800 - Verso World History (Paperback)
Henri-Jean Martin (author), Lucien Febvre (author), David Gerard (translator)
£22.99
Paperback
382 Pages
Published: 02/08/2010
Published: 02/08/2010
The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of consciousness itself to root the development of printing in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe. Now that the printed page may become a thing of the past, The Coming of the Book is more pertinent than ever.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 9781844676330
Number of pages: 382
Weight: 606 g
Dimensions: 236 x 157 x 28 mm
Edition: 3rd edition
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It is one of the most exciting scholarly books ever written on printing ... This book is serious work-marvelously rich and stimulating. -- Hugh Trevor-Roper * Sunday Times *
It ranks easily among the most consequential works of recent French scholarship. * Times Literary Supplement *
It ranks easily among the most consequential works of recent French scholarship. * Times Literary Supplement *
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