"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." --Journal of Economic History
"...an ambitious and stimulating attempt to synthesize recent studies within the diverse and changing historical contexts of Western society....(R)equired reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists. --Histoire Sociale
"(A) monumental work from one of the foremost figures in historical literacy studies." --Social History
"(Graff succeeds) in providing a 'deeper understanding of literacy in society and culture'." --History of Education
"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." --Journal of Communication
"Clearly an important book...marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." --History of Education Quarterly
This wide-ranging synthesis of literacy research explores the dimensions and meanings of literacy in the West, examined in terms of its social and historical context, and suggests important ways of connecting the history of literacy to significant questions of Western civilization in the late twentieth century.
Harvey J. Graff is Director of the Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences and Professor of History at The University of Texas at San Antonio, and author of The Literary Myth, Literacy and Social Development in the West, The Labyrinths of Literacy, and Growing Up in America. He is currently at work on a social and cultural history of growing up.
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