The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of modes of consciousness to root the development of printing in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.
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It ranks easily among the most consequential works of recent French scholarship. --Times Literary Supplement
It is one of the most exciting scholarly books ever written on printing ... This book is serious workmarvellously rich and stimulating. --Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times
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