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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10) (1958)

by Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin

Other authors: Anne Basanoff (Contributor), Henri Bernard-Maître (Contributor), Moché Catane (Contributor), Marie-Roberte Guignard (Contributor), Marcel Thomas (Contributor)

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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.… (more)
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Lucien Febvreprimary authorall editionscalculated
Martin, Henri-Jeanmain authorall editionsconfirmed
Basanoff, AnneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bernard-Maître, HenriContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Catane, MochéContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Guignard, Marie-RoberteContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Thomas, MarcelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Barbier, FrédéricAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Chalus, PaulIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gerard, DavidTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Nowell-Smith, GeoffreyEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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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.

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