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

Name: Coming of the Book The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
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ISBN: 9781859841082

ISBN-10: 1859841082

ISBN-13: 9781859841082

Edition: 1997

Authors: Lucien Febvre

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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.

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 4/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Manuscripts




Preliminaries: The Introduction of Paper into Europe



The Technical Problems and their Solution



The Book: Its Visual Appearance



The Book as a Commodity



The Little World of the Book



The Geography of the Book



The Book Trade



The Book as a Force for Change


Notes


Index