Download or read book Print, Power, and People in 17th-century France written by Henri-Jean Martin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English, this major work of scholarship, originally presented as the author's thesis (Paris) and originally published in Geneva in 1969, places the publishing trade at the center of the study of the intellectual, political, and economic evolution of Europe through examination of the physical evidence. Martin, a French historian of the Annales school and president of the Institut du Livre, shows the printed book to be the focus of society's cultural well-being. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR