Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity

by Frédéric Barbier and Frédéric Barbier

Book Overview

Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication ?- what we call the media. In this book, historian Fr?(c)d?(c)ric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg?s invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and with a wealth of historical evidence, Barbier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0796HZCS4
• ISBN13: 9780745672588
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"