{"product_id":"the-legacies-of-literacy-9780253205988","title":"The Legacies of Literacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades.\" - Michael B. Katz\"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism.\" - Journal of Economic History\" ... ambitious and stimulating ... required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists.\" - Histoire Sociale\"Clearly an important book ... marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies.\" - History of Education Quarterly\"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces.\" - Journal of Communication\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Setting the Stage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Literacy's Legacies\u003cbr\u003e1. The Origins of Western Leteracy\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Writing to Literacy\u003cbr\u003e 2. Literacy's First Legacies: From Athens\u003cbr\u003e 3. ...to Rome, and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Before the Printing Press: The Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e2. Th Light of Literacy in the \"Dark Ages\"\u003cbr\u003e 1. Fifth-Seventh Centuries\u003cbr\u003e 2. Seventh Century\u003cbr\u003e 3. Eighth Century\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ninth-Tenth Centuries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. New Lights of Literacy and Learning: From the Tenth-Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e 1. Italy and Commercial Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Church, Papacy, and Schools\u003cbr\u003e 3. Patterns of Literacy\u003cbr\u003e 4. Thought, Theory, and Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Ends and Beginnings: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e 1. Humanism and the Italian Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 2. Continental Conditions in Literacy\u003cbr\u003e 3. The English Example\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Print, Protest, and the People\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Advent and Impact of Print\u003cbr\u003e 2. Renaissance(s) Revisited\u003cbr\u003e 3. Print, Reform, and Reformation\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reforming Literacy Provision\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Toward Enlightenment\/Toward Modernity: 1660-1780\u003cbr\u003e 1. Thinking about Literacy and Schooling\u003cbr\u003e 2. Patterns of Literacy: Paths to Literacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Four: Toward the Present and the Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Our Times\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Setting\u003cbr\u003e 2. Literacy's Paths and Patterns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Today and Tomorrow: Revisioning Literacy\u003cbr\u003e 1. Twentieth-Century Trends in Literacy Levels\u003cbr\u003e 2. Imputed Impacts and Consequences; or, Great and Other Dichotomies \u003cbr\u003e Revisited\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Crisis in Literacy?\u003cbr\u003e 4. Literacy, Culture, and Society: Communications and the Future of \u003cbr\u003e Literacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MH - Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036854059351,"sku":"9780253205988","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253205988.jpg?v=1750932758","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-legacies-of-literacy-9780253205988","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}