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The Nature of the Book – Print & Knowledge in the Making - Hardcover

Johns, Adrian

 
9780226401218: The Nature of the Book – Print & Knowledge in the Making
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226401219 ISBN 13: 9780226401218
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

This text takes a look at early modern England and the creative and commercial forces in which print culture was formed and its many arenas - commercial, intellectual, political and individual. It includes detailed information on booksellers shops, the Royal Society, paper manufactories and type foundaries. Also featured are replications of the bitter disputes between authors and printers, printers and booksellers and clerics and individuals as they debate and resolve the meaning and rights attached to the creation of ideas, their appearance in written form and then in print, and the opportunity to sell, buy, and read printed work. Focusing on the interplay between the scientific and print revolutions and on their roles, both complementary and antagonistic, the text looks at production and dissemination of knowledge. Print also being used to manipulate those findings for political, religious or idealogical reasons.

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About the Author

Adrian Johns is the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226401219
ISBN 13 
9780226401218
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
754