Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Chapter 1. First Impressions 1
6. Chapter 2. After Luther: Civil War in Christendom 34
7. Chapter 3. After Erasmus: Propelling the Knowledge Industry 62
8. Chapter 4. Eighteenth-Century Attitudes 98
9. Chapter 5. The Zenith of Print Culture (Nineteenth Century) 153
10. Chapter 6. The Newspaper Press: The End of Books? 198
11. Chapter 7. Toward the Sense of an Ending (Fin de Siècle to the Present) 215
12. Notes 247
13. Bibliography 311
14. Index 347
15. Acknowledgments 367