The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the PresentHarperPress, 2006 - 1617 pages "This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... printed text.1 Not so different from today , when the printed academic article still has greater prestige than the electronic text . All innovation inevitably generates alarm and complaints about the end of civilisation . Printing , an ...
... printed text.1 Not so different from today , when the printed academic article still has greater prestige than the electronic text . All innovation inevitably generates alarm and complaints about the end of civilisation . Printing , an ...
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... printed in 1500 , 259 in 1600 and 577 in 1640 . Assuming an average print run of 1,000 copies , it follows that between 300,000 and 500,000 volumes were printed every year in England between 1600 and 1640 . 25 - Such figures look ...
... printed in 1500 , 259 in 1600 and 577 in 1640 . Assuming an average print run of 1,000 copies , it follows that between 300,000 and 500,000 volumes were printed every year in England between 1600 and 1640 . 25 - Such figures look ...
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... printed material shorter than five pages was to be regarded as a ' leaflet ' . In fact , even after 1955 , many national statistics have continued to go their own way . The Italians and the Irish , among others , called a pamphlet ...
... printed material shorter than five pages was to be regarded as a ' leaflet ' . In fact , even after 1955 , many national statistics have continued to go their own way . The Italians and the Irish , among others , called a pamphlet ...
Contents
The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion | 3 |
Triumphant Languages | 21 |
Publishing | 41 |
Copyright | |
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