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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein · 1979

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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.

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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thissciencescienceMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thismediamediaMore like thisLess of thistechnologytechnologyMore like thisLess of thisbooks about booksbooks about booksMore like thisLess of this
Setting
RenaissanceRenaissanceMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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epic · 820 pages

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