Gutenberg's Europe : the book and the invention of Western modernity / Frédéric Barbier ; translat...
Gutenberg's Europe : the book and the invention of Western modernity / Frédéric Barbier ; translat...
Gutenberg's Europe : the book and the invention of Western modernity / Frédéric Barbier ; translated by Jean Birrell.
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017]
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G 2017/29
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English
French
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Physical content
xiv, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Part one. Gutenberg before Gutenberg -- Chapter 1. The preconditions for a new economy of the media -- The key space of modernity: the town -- The market in education -- The emergence of the political -- Chapter 2. The economy of the book -- Manuscript production --...
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication--what we call the media. In this book, historian Frédéric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg's invention of the printing press i...
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Gutenberg's Europe : the book and the invention of Western modernity / Frédéric Barbier ; translated by Jean Birrell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/29
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74VKVMR7gE7O
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ISBN
0745672582 paperback
9780745672571 hardback
0745672574 hardback
9780745672588 paperback
DDC
686.1092
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991024028955902626
