10 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

A History of Reading in the West

Guglielmo Cavallo(editor),

Roger Chartier(Editor)

Guglielmo Cavallo(editor),

Roger Chartier(Editor)

1995 • 478 pages

Covering the long history of literacy in the Western World, a wide variety of experts comments on the role of books and reading in shaping culture, politics, public opinion, and mores from antiquity to the present.

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Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book is a 10-book series with 10 released primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by Megan L. Benton, Priscilla Coit Murphy, and Augusta Rohrbach.