The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe

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794 pages

English language

Published Jan. 10, 1979 by Cambridge University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-521-22044-6
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OCLC Number:
3608722

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Originally published in two volumes in 1980, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of early modern times - the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.

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reviewed The printing press as an agent of change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Muy especulativo

El libro es muy interesante en general (aunque hay ratos en que se hace algo pesado). Puede pecar de que faltan datos en muchos aspectos, aunque es algo reconocido por la propia autora. Además las inferencias que hace al respecto del impacto de la imprenta en la sociedad son bastante consistentes. En conjuntto es un texto bastante instructivo

Subjects

  • Printing -- Influence
  • Reformation
  • Renaissance
  • Technology and civilization