num_pages: 378
description: Books, &amp; 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 &amp; heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre &amp; Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic &amp; technological history, sociology &amp; anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations &amp; ideological struggles of Western Europe.
language: English
title: The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
titlecomplete: The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
genres: France, History, Books About Books, Society, European History, Technology, Read For School, Writing, Nonfiction, Academic
ratings_count: 274
publisher: Verso/New Left Books Ltd.