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Elizabeth Eisenstein
Elizabeth Eisenstein in 1979 as the first resident scholar for the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress
Born(1923-10-11)October 11, 1923
DiedJanuary 31, 2016(2016-01-31) (aged 92)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materVassar College
Radcliffe College
Scientific career
FieldsHistorian
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (October 11, 1923 – January 31, 2016) was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th-century France. She is well known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of 'manuscript culture' and that of 'print culture', as well as the role of the printing press in effecting broad cultural change in Western civilization.

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Elizabeth Eisenstein

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Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (October 11, 1923 – January 31, 2016) was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th-century France....

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National Coalition of Independent Scholars

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NCIS honored the late Professor Elizabeth Eisenstein by reviving the Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize. The Eisenstein Prize is awarded for the best essay...

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Print culture

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communication. One prominent scholar of print culture in Europe is Elizabeth Eisenstein, who contrasted the print culture of Europe in the centuries after...

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History of writing

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consequences for the development of knowledge, as documented by Elizabeth Eisenstein. The production and distribution of knowledge was no longer tied...

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Printing

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Print was instrumental in changing the social nature of reading. Elizabeth Eisenstein identifies two long-term effects of the invention of printing. She...

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Humanist minuscule

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comprehensive Renaissance palaeography", The Art Bulletin 42 (1960:1). Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 2nd ed. (Cambridge...

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Benedict Anderson

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printed literature and its dissemination. Thinkers like McLuhan, Elizabeth Eisenstein, and Anderson did not believe that nationalism came about because...

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Radcliffe College

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American woman to fulfill the requirements for a doctoral degree Elizabeth Eisenstein, historian Barbara Epstein, founder of The New York Review of Books...

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List of historians

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Eagleton (born 1943), political history, art history, cultural history Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, printing Geoff Eley (born 1949),...

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Crane Brinton

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historian Will Johnston. He also served as an advisor for historian Elizabeth Eisenstein, author of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Brinton was...

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Deaths in January 2016

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(1992–1996). Lance Cox, 82, Australian football player (Richmond). Elizabeth Eisenstein, 92, American historian. Tom Hancock, 67, American politician. David...

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Manuscript culture

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specifically generated by Elizabeth Eisenstein, a key print culture scholar, and arguably creator of the "print culture" model. Eisenstein argued that the invention...

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Books in France

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angles. Influential scholars include Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Elizabeth Eisenstein, and Henri-Jean Martin. The Cercle de la Librairie [fr] (book trade...

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Aldine Press

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employ learned Greeks in order to teach them directly. Historian Elizabeth Eisenstein claims that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 had placed under threat...

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Steal This Film

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Alternative Law Forum Sebastien Lütgert, member of Pirate Cinema Elizabeth Eisenstein, historian Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of Media Studies and law...

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List of historians by area of study

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(born 1939) – Europe as a whole Tony Judt (1948–2010) – post 1945 Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016) – early printing and transitions in media Julia P. Gelardi...

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List of American University people

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Internet governance scholar; School of Communications Professor Elizabeth Eisenstein – author and historian on the French Revolution and early printing...

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Geography of media and communication

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Philippe Vidal Torsten Wissmann Stefan Zimmermann Manuel Castells Elizabeth Eisenstein Kevin Glynn Harold Innis Marshall McLuhan Joshua Meyrowitz Lewis...

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List of women historians by area of study

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(born 1964) – international relations and transnational relations Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016) – early printing and transitions in media Julia P. Gelardi...

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Johann Fust

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production of multiple copies of the same text.[citation needed] Elizabeth Eisenstein cites a similar story, and comments:: 49–50  The story may be just...

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Michael Hauben

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applied his study of the Printing Revolution especially the work of Elizabeth Eisenstein to an analysis of the trajectory in which the Internet and netizens...

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Judith Kaplan Eisenstein

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Judith Eisenstein (née Kaplan; September 10, 1909 – February 14, 1996) was an author, musicologist, composer, theologian and the first person to celebrate...

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Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz

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on 2021-11-15. Retrieved 2021-11-15. Fox, Margalit (2016-02-25). "Elizabeth Eisenstein, Trailblazing Historian of Movable Type, Dies at 92". The New York...

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