The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800In 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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Preface | 7 |
The Introduction of Paper into Europe | 31 |
The Technical Problems and their Solution | 45 |
Copyright | |
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