The Rise of Mass Literacy
Subtitle: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe (Themes in History (Polity Press).)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780745614458
Subjects: Social theory; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Language Arts & Disciplines; Illiteracy And Literacy Education; History - General History; Language; Europe; Literacy; Europe - General; LITERACY_HISTORY; Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy; History; Social aspects
First sentence: Literacy in modern Europe came of age on 9 October 1874.