Reading Ireland : print, reading, and social change in early modern Ireland /

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This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the outlook of early modern people is well known, recen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gillespie, Raymond (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005.
Colección:Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
Temas:
1500-1699
Books and reading > Ireland > History > 16th century.
Books and reading > Ireland > History > 17th century.
Printing > Ireland > History > 16th century.
Printing > Ireland > History > 17th century.
Social change > Ireland > History > 16th century.
Social change > Ireland > History > 17th century.
Livres et lecture > Irlande > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Livres et lecture > Irlande > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Imprimerie > Irlande > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Imprimerie > Irlande > Histoire > 17e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > General.
Books and reading
Printing
Social change
Social conditions
Ireland > Social conditions > 16th century.
Ireland > Social conditions > 17th century.
Irlande > Conditions sociales > 16e siècle.
Irlande > Conditions sociales > 17e siècle.
Ireland
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Note on the text; Abbreviations; Part I The conditions of print; 1. The social meaning of print; 2. The prelude to print:the rise of writing; Part 2 The development of print; 3. The coming of print, 1550-1650; 4. The triumph of print, 1650-1700; Part 3. The strategies of reading; 5. Reading for power: institutions and print; 6. Reading for salvation; 7. Reading for profit and pleasure; Appendix
  • Book production inseventeenth-century Ireland; Bibliography; Index.

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