Discusses the nature and extent of modernization in 17th-century Russia, before Peter the Great’s accession, showing that, contrary to the popular view, there was a great deal of modernization in…

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet -…

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