The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Volume I: Communications and cultural transformations in early-modern Europe

by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

The first fully-documented historical analysis of the impact of the invention of printing upon European culture, and its importance as an agent of religious, political, social, scientific, and intellectual change.

Genres: Nonfiction

494 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 1979

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.

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book represents much of the criticism on Gutenberg's printing press. To me, this book is overly critical in trying to measure exactly all of the effects the printing press had on the written word, technology, and people. Some great quotations are explained in this book from other scholars analyzing the printing press.