The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Canto) - Softcover

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521447704 ISBN 13: 9780521447706

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Although the importance of the advent of printing for Western civilisation has long been recognised, it was Professor Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated and abridged edition of Professor Eisenstein's study gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. It begins with a discussion of the general implications of the introduction of printing, and then explores how the shift from script to print entered into the three major movements of early modern times: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.

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Review

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

'Eisenstein has an intimate familiarity with the great narrative of modern history since the fifteenth century. She boasts an unsurpassed feeling for the strengths and weaknesses of the ways in which historians have explained great changes.' Commonweal

Book Description

This illustrated and abridged edition of Professor Eisenstein's major work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521447704
• ISBN 13: 9780521447706
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 314