Print, Power and People in 17th-Century France

by Henri-Jean Martin and David Gerard

Available for the first time in English, this is a major work of scholarship, originally published in Geneva in 1969 by a distinguished French historian of the famous Annales school and President of the Institut du Livre. By placing the publishing trade at the center of the study of the intellectual, political, and economic evolution of Europe through examination of the physical evidence, Martin has revolutionized historical narrative. He shows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810824779
• ISBN13: 9780810824775
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 758 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.7" x 8.7"