The History of Reading in the West

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The History of Reading in the West

Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier · 1995 · 478 pages

Covering the long history of literacy in the Western World, a wide variety of experts comments on the role of books and reading in shaping culture, politics, public opinion, and mores from antiquity to the present.

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