Reading Ireland : print, reading, and social change in early modern Ireland /
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Author / Creator: | Gillespie, Raymond, author. |
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Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169159 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.