title: Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity
author: Frdric Barbier
description: "Combining meticulous scholarship with persuasive comparisons between the print and the digital revolutions, Frdric Barbier has made the most important contribution to the field since Elizabeth Eisensteins <i>The Printing Press as an Agent of Change."</i><br /><b>Peter Burke, Cambridge University<br /><br /></b>"The great strength of this book is that it roots Gutenbergs invention so firmly in the mediaeval craft society from which it emerged. Gutenberg was able to draw on a range of pre-existing techniques and developing markets; without these transformations, so meticulously explored here, the print revolution might have been still-born."<br /><b>Andrew Pettegree, St. Andrews University
  						    	
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zlib_text: THE NEW OLD WORLD 
  
  BY THE SAME AUTHOR 
  Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism 
  Lineages of the Absolutist State 
  Considerations on Western Marxism 
  Arguments within English Marxism 
  In the Tracks of Historical Materialism 
  A Zone of Engagement 
  English Questions 
  The Origins of Postmodernity 
  Spectrum 
  
  THE NEW OLD WORLD 
  • 
  PERRY ANDERSON 
  VERSO 
  London • New York 
  
  This paperback edition published by Verso 2011 
  First published by Verso 2009 
  © Perry Anderson 2009 
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