2009
DOI: 10.1017/s0022050709000837
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Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries

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“…A far from exhaustive list of important events in this period include the "finding" of the New World, the invention of the printing press, the Ottoman conquering of Constantinople and threatening of Vienna, the height of the Renaissance, and the Protestant Reformation. Many economists have pointed to at least one of these phenomena as heralding the "rise of the West" (Weber 1905;Tawney 1926;Pomeranz 2000;Mokyr 1990Mokyr , 2002Acemoglu, Johnson, andRobinson 2001, 2005;Greif 2006;Becker andWößmann 2008, 2009;Iyigun 2008;Buringh and van Zanden 2009;Chilosi and Volckart 2010;Dittmar 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A far from exhaustive list of important events in this period include the "finding" of the New World, the invention of the printing press, the Ottoman conquering of Constantinople and threatening of Vienna, the height of the Renaissance, and the Protestant Reformation. Many economists have pointed to at least one of these phenomena as heralding the "rise of the West" (Weber 1905;Tawney 1926;Pomeranz 2000;Mokyr 1990Mokyr , 2002Acemoglu, Johnson, andRobinson 2001, 2005;Greif 2006;Becker andWößmann 2008, 2009;Iyigun 2008;Buringh and van Zanden 2009;Chilosi and Volckart 2010;Dittmar 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Se pasa de una producción muy limitada de copias manuscritas a otra mecanizada y mucho más amplia. Según las estimaciones realizadas por Buringh y van Zanden (2009) el número de copias manuscritas en Europa desde el siglo VI hasta el siglo XV fue de poco más de ocho millones (de los cuales, cinco millones de copias manuscritas se realizaron sólo en el siglo XV). A partir del siglo XV y hasta el siglo XVIII la impresión mecánica de libros alcanza la cifra de unos mil setecientos millones de copias (sólo en el siglo XV se superaron los diez millones de copias por medio de la imprenta y en el siglo XVIII se produjeron en torno a los mil millones).…”
Section: La Literatura Como Herramienta De Ocio Y Recreación: Evoluciunclassified
“…17 More generally, Buringh and Van Zanden estimated that more than 1,750,000 books (defined as fifty pages or more) were published in Western Europe prior to 1801. 18 To bring this closer to the present, in a 2006 examination of books in OCLC WorldCat, Lavoie and Schonfeld found that roughly six million books (18 percent of the books then in WorldCat) were published prior to 1923 (a rough indicator of public domain status in 2008). 19 The chart accompanying the Lavoie and Schonfeld article suggested a steady rate of increase in publishing output throughout the nineteenth century.…”
Section: Scope Of the Study: The Public Domainmentioning
confidence: 99%