Fb2 The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe (Themes in History) ePub

This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and impact of mass literacy across Europe between 1750 and 1950. The volume outlines the main features of the comparative growth of literacy, and relates them to the later growth of electronic media.

This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and impact of mass literacy across Europe between 1750 and 1950. 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.

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Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. School and book serve this liberation in the sense that horizons are widened by learning about worlds of thought other than one's own. Such a general education is in keeping with an envisioned Europe predisposed to tolerance of difference and pluriformity. Modern Europe - Death by Migration:Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

David Vincent's book is an admirably careful, lucid and perceptive synthesis, the first to integrate . This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and impact of mass literacy across Europe between 1750 and 1950.

David Vincent's book is an admirably careful, lucid and perceptive synthesis, the first to integrate recent approaches which stress the interactions between the written and the oral and between groups and individuals. Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

David Vincent, The rise of mass literacy: reading and writing in modern Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. ISBN 0-7456-1444-2 (hb); 0-7456-1445-0 (pb).

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David Vincent was an undergraduate at the University of York and gained a PhD . Reading and Writing in Modern Europe (Polity Press, 2000).

David Vincent was an undergraduate at the University of York and gained a PhD at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge. He became Lecturer in History at Keele University in 1974, leaving as Professor of Social History and Deputy Vice Chancellor in 2003 to take up the post of Pro Vice Chancellor (Strategy and External Affairs) at the Open University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Now Emeritus Professor in History, he was a full-time member of the History Department between 2010 and 2014. His most recent books are: I hope I Don’t Intrude.

Literacy and literature have been fundamental in discussions of popular culture in the early modern period. For the later period see D. Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) and W. B. Stephens, Education, Literacy and Society, 1830–1870 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987).