Rise of Mass Literacy: Post-Empiricism and the Reconstruction of Theory and Application
This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and impact of mass literacy across Europe from 1750 to 1950. The volume outlines the main features of the comparative growth of literacy, and relates them to the later growth of electronic media. It assesses the ways in which mass literacy has transformed ways of living and thinking, by exploring broader social and cultural issues such as gender, age, consciousness of time and space, and our relationship with the natural world. The impact of literacy on democracy and political mobilization, and on the making of censorship and propaganda, is also discussed in this lively and access…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-1445-8
- EAN: 9780745614458
- Produktnummer: 1581361
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.6 cm 272 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 272
Über den Autor
David Vincent is Professor of Social History and Pro--Vice--Chancellor at the Open University.
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