o. ED 237 942 DOCUMENT RESUME- AUTHOR Resni , Daniel P., Ed. TITLE° ' Liter cy in Historical ,Perspective. j INSTITUTION Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. REPORT NO ISAN-0-8444-0410-1 'PUB DATE 83 , NOTE , 170p.; This publication contains eight of the papers - 1144 i commissioned for presentation at 'the Literacy in Historical, Perspective conftrence sponsored by the_ a Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and , the National Invtitute of Educat. n (Washington, DC, July 1980). 1P AVAILABLE FROM, Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing (' ' Office, Washington, DC 20402. I PUB TYPE Collected Works Conference Prpceedings (021) .c... , CS 007 426 r-- EDRS PRICE I MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adult Literacy; *Cultural,Context; *Cultural / 'Influences; Educational History; ForeigniCountries,; Intellectual History; fLiteracy;.*Social Influences; Social Problems J / ABSTRAC!? ''` The result of a cofffe en bringing historians and educa rs together with government of ici s to learn about Current liter cy research mid to discuss research needs, this book presents eigh conference papers. Topics covered include (1) the spread of 'lite'racy, ,(2) the imPact of the'printing press on current attitudes /toward literacy, (3) the cultural cofftext for literacy in seventeenth-century England and New`England, ('4) the-relationship between literacy and traditional culture in England between 1600 yid .L850, (5) the position of the illiterate person in the Aineteenth-century American court system, (6) functional literacf in /nineteenth-century China, (7) schooling,and. literacy in late Imperial 'Russia, (8) discriminatory assessments of black literady, and (9) t significant readings on literacy. (MM) A i , S 1 ,* :Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made / * * , from the original document. * ***4******************************************************************* 4 . / zai, . e ' , \1 .