tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33883853.post2793415622450378295..comments2024-03-26T23:56:40.646+05:30Comments on At The Edge: Books about books: Anne Fadiman's personal listVinayak Razdanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01643747755690367960noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33883853.post-46346392812632046132007-07-16T20:46:00.000+05:302007-07-16T20:46:00.000+05:30Thanks for recommending the books, Aniket.Thanks for recommending the books, Aniket.Vinayak Razdanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01643747755690367960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33883853.post-45885450198702053312007-07-13T12:20:00.000+05:302007-07-13T12:20:00.000+05:30.as a historian there are two books about books wh....<BR/>as a historian there are two books about books which should surely be read<BR/><BR/>1. Lucien Febvre, <I>.The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450 - 1800</I>. This book was published immediately after WWII though much of the research on which it is based was conducted pre-war. It remains a very relevant classic even today and is now available in Indian bookshops.<BR/><BR/>2. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, <I>The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe</I> which is another very good book. She has another two volume work <I>The Printing Press as an Agent of Change</I> which is not available in India but is the more detailed work. <BR/><BR/>Benedict Anderson's <I>Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism</I> has an excellent discussion on how the printed word, in both newspapers/magazines as well as in books, helped shape the modern nation.<BR/><BR/>Aniketthe_unexamined_lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17052791125082549482noreply@blogger.com