Reading Ireland - Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Gillespie is Professor of Modern History at National University of Ireland, Maynooth Klappentext An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland Zusammenfassung An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The social meaning of print2. The context of print: the growth of a written culture3. The coming of the book, 1500-16504. The triumph of print, 1650-17005. Reading for salvation6. Reading for power7. Reading for profit and pleasureAppendixIndex

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• Authors: Raymond Gillespie, Gillespie Raymond, Raymond Gillespie Is Senior Lecturer in
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2012
• EAN: 9780719087820
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8782-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Politics, Culture & Society in; Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries