The information revolution in early modern Europe / Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University, Georgi...
The information revolution in early modern Europe / Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University, Georgi...
The information revolution in early modern Europe / Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University, Georgia.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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G 2021/2945
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English
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Physical content
xi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Worlds of Paper -- European Paper -- 'Ink Stained Fingers'- The Information of Commerce and Finance -- The Paper of Politics and the Politics of Paper -- Revolutionary Print -- The Book of Nature and the Books of Man -- Writing Others and the Self -- Conclusion: Information Revolutions...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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England
Date Published
2021.
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""The fear of obliteration obsessed the societies of early modern Europe," Roger Chartier writes in Inscription and Erasure. "To quell their anxiety, they preserved in writing traces of the past, remembrances of the dead, the glory of the living, and texts of all kinds that were not supposed to disappear."1 The efforts they made to confront this an...
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The information revolution in early modern Europe / Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University, Georgia.
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New approaches to European history
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-330) and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/2945
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74VKarOxLdyg
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ISBN
1107147530
9781107147539
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020.94
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991024442329202626
