Rise of Mass Literacy: Post-Empiricism and the Reconstruction of Theory and Application

by David Vincent

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. 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745614450
• ISBN13: 9780745614458
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"