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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war …
The Invention of News
The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability …
THE BOOK AT WAR
The Bookshop of the World
The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles—“an instant classic on Dutch book history” (BMGN - Low Countries …
The Library: A Fragile History
The "engaging" and "ambitious" (Washington Post) history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age. The history of the library is …
The Reformation
This collection reflects both the classic building blocks of Reformation history, such as the writings of Luther and Calvin, and also the new historiography which has emerged in …
The Early Reformation in Europe
In the generation that followed Martin Luther’s protest the evangelical movement in Europe attracted very different levels of support in different parts of the continent. Whereas …
Reformation Europe
This is G.R. Elton's classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigour and …
Book at War
Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in wartime
The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book
This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the …
Calvinism in Europe, 1540–1620
Calvinism was the most dynamic and disruptive religious force of the later sixteenth century. Its emergence on the international scene shattered the precarious equilibrium …