Books by David (The Open University) Vincent

* David Vincent is a foremost social historian and has been working on the history of privacy and secrecy for a number of years * This new book will be a short history of privacy since the middle ages.

This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and impact of mass literacy across Europe between 1750 and 1950. The volume outlines the main features of the comparative growth of literacy, and relates them to the later growth of electronic media.