Printing Revolution Early Modern Europe - Hardcover

Eisenstein, Elizabeth

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9780521258586: Printing Revolution Early Modern Europe

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ISBN 10: 0521258588 ISBN 13: 9780521258586

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1984

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Looks at the emergence of print culture in western Europe and discusses its influence on the Protestant Reformation and the development of science

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'This is a good and important book ... the author's clear and forceful style makes it a pleasure to read.' The New York Review of Books

'... the first comprehensive account of the difference made by the introduction and rapid spread of printing and printers' workshops. ... a useful introduction to the kinds of preliminary question which students might be encouraged to ask ...' Katy Hooper, University of Liverpool

Book Description:

Although the importance of printing for the Western world has long been recognized, it was Elizabeth Eisenstein, in The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This edition gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.

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