The coming of the book : the impact of printing, 1450-1800
Lucien Febvre (Author, Writer of preface), Henri-Jean Martin (Author), Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (Editor), David Wootton (Editor)
Examines the impact of the emergence of the book, the world's most influential information technology. Febvre and Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of consciousness itself to root the development of printing in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe. --Adapted from publisher description
Print Book, English, 2010
Verso, London, 2010