The Coming of the Book keyword-change The final chapter discusses the

The final chapter discusses the issues surrounding the presentation of non-Western cultural artefacts to a Western general public

he reveals the crucial role the slave trade played in the lives and fortunes of figures like John Quincy Adams and the "generation of 1815"

pursuing a detailed study of the Bible and its fascination for ‘ordinary and unimportant’ people

Chinese and Cuban revolutions of the last century

The Coming of the Book keyword-change The final chapter discusses theThe emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of consciousness itself to root the development of printing in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe. Now that the printed page may become a thing of the