The printing revolution in early modern Europe

In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of p...

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Main Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
Other Authors: Cox, Jonathan (Narrator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] Tantor Media, Inc. 2021
Edition:[First edition]
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