Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.
- ISBN10 1859841082
- ISBN13 9781859841082
- Publish Date 17 April 1997 (first published 17 July 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 August 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 380
- Language English