Reading Ireland: Print, Reading And Social Change in Early Modern Ireland - Couverture rigide

Gillespie, Raymond

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 071905527X ISBN 13 : 9780719055270

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Reading Ireland An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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, recent years have seen significant changes in our understanding of how writing and print shaped lives, and was in turn shaped by those who appropriated the written word. The author finds that a set of revolutions took place which transformed the lives of the Irish in unexpected ways, and that the rise of writing and the spread of print were central to an understanding of those changes which have previously only been understood to have been the result of conquest and colonisation. This is a book which will be read not only by those interested in the Irish past but by all those who are concerned with the impact of communications media on social change.

Revue de presse :

Raymond Gillespie's book is an admirably thorough study of its subject, concentrating on books. --Clare Hutton, Times Literary Supplement

this is a stimulating and intellectually challenging book --Liam Chambers, University of Limerick

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 071905527X
• ISBN 13: 9780719055270
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232