Print Culture And Enlightenment Thought The Sixth Hanes Lecture...

by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

First edition. The sixth Hanes Lecture. iv , 35 pages. stiff paper wrappers.. 8vo..

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Published January 1, 1986

About the author

Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th century France. She was best known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of 'manuscript culture' and that of 'print culture', as well as the role of the printing press in effecting broad cultural change in Western civilization.