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Elizabeth Eisenstein

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American historian (1923-2016)

United StatesWritersLived 1923 to 2016 · aged 92
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Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th-century France.

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1979Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Lyell Lectures

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Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein 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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Lived 1923 to 2016 · aged 92
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