New illustrated and abridged edition surveys the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.

In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work,

A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.

Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how di

This illustrated and abridged edition of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth c