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Brill's studies in intellectual history volume Volume 246
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture in which learning about the world and its human boundaries came increasingly through reading, one place where histories of race and histories of books intersect...
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What life was like volume 15
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1999.
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IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 223
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume Volume 205
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history volume Volume 20
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history volume Volume 20
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 194
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Harvard historical studies volume 179
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 192
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 185
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
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"The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals, the story of the post-Guttenberg world was rather more complicated than we have often come to believe. The Book in the Renaissance reconstructs the first 150 years of the world of print, exploring...