Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin ; translated by David Gerard ; edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Verso,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1997.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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378 pages :
Other Physical Details
maps ;
Dimensions
22 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Verso classics ;
Volume Designation
10
GENERAL NOTES
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Originally published: London : N.L.B., 1976.
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Translation of L'apparition du livre.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preliminaries: the introduction of paper into Europe -- Technical problems and their solution -- Book: its visual appearance -- Book as a commodity -- LIttle world of the book -- Geography of the book -- Book trade -- Book as a force for change.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe. - Publisher.