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Hardcover 2 volume set in black boards with green decoration and gilt lettering on spine. No DJ. Tight binding Unmarked text. Ex-Library with usual markings grade this book acceptable. History Printing Press 010821. This two-volume, 750-page exploration of the effects of movable type printing on the literate elite of post-Gutenberg Western Europe focuses on the printing press's functions of dissemination, standardization, and preservation and the way these functions aided the progress of the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance, and the Scientific Revolution. Eisenstein brings historical method, rigor, and clarity to earlier ideas of Marshall McLuhan and others about the general social effects of such media transitions. This work provoked debate in the academic community from the moment it was published and is still inspiring conversation and new research today. It also has influenced later thinking about the subsequent development of digital media and Eisenstein's work on the transition from…
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- Title Printing Press Agent
- Author Elizabeth Eisenstein
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 824
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1979
- ISBN 9780521220446 / 0521220440
- Library of Congress subjects Renaissance, Technology and civilization
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 77091083
- Dewey Decimal Code 686.2
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