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      The Revolutionary Temper

      Robert Darnton

      A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian

      'Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed…

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      The Writer’s Lot

      Robert Darnton

      The Writer's Lot explores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors-celebrities and unknowns-at a time when their example, if not often their ideas, changed the course of history. Taking the…

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      The Revolutionary Temper

      Robert Darnton

      When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most…

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      Great Cat Massacre

      Robert Darnton

      A classic work of European history

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      George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

      Robert Darnton

      A master historian’s excavations into the past unearth a world that is unexpected and compelling.

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      The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon

      Robert Darnton

      Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the…

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      The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History

      Robert Darnton

      Learned and lively essays… . Each subject [Darnton] investigates-from the history of reading to Andrzej Wajda’s film ‘Danton’-has its own fascination. -The New Yorker

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      The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

      Robert Darnton

      Robert Darnton’s work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.

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      The Revolutionary Temper

      Robert Darnton

      Shortlisted for the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award

      A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

      A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a…

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      Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature

      Robert Darnton

      Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight. -Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books

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      The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future

      Robert Darnton

      Digitisation makes the physical properties of books disposable; e-book readers and mobile phones render them portable and accessible almost everywhere. The author is a unique authority, whose work on this…

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      The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, 1775-1800

      Robert Darnton

      Darnton explores some fascinating territory in the genre of histoire du livre and tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the…

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      The Literary Underground of the Old Regime

      Robert Darnton

      Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment.

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      Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

      Robert Darnton

      Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer arrived in Paris and began to promulgate an exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton’s…

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      The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789

      Robert Darnton

      Having thoroughly mined the sources, Darnton provides a trove of information on the illegal literature of Old Regime France. The result is an invaluable resource to specialists in French cultural…

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      Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton

      A collection of essays examining how print culture shaped the legacy of the Enlightenment. Explores the challenges, contradictions, and dilemmas modern European societies have encountered since the eighteenth century in…

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      The Interpretation of Cultures

      Clifford Geertz

      Preface to the 2000 edition : pages x-xiii.

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      Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris

      Robert Darnton

      In 1749, Francois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an abominable poem about the king. So began the Affair of the…

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      A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

      Robert Darnton (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus and University Librarian, Emeritus, Harvard University)

      Based on decades of original research, an account of books and bookselling in a country on the brink of revolution.

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      Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002-2011

      Peter Suber (Harvard University)

      Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement.

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      Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment

      Robert Darnton (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, University Librarian and Emeritus, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, University Librarian and Emeritus, Harvard University)

      The story of how book piracy in pre-Revolutionary France expanded the reach of the works that would inspire momentous change.

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      The Bohemians

      Anne Gedeon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport

      Rediscovered by Robert Darnton and brought gloriously back to life in Vivian Folkenflik’s translation, The Bohemians at last takes its place as a major work of eighteenth century libertinism.

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      Berlin Journal, 1989-1990

      Robert Darnton

      Makes us appreciate something of what it felt like for Germans East and West as the world ended. -Anthony Bailey, New York Times Book Review

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      Journal of My Life

      Daniel Roche

      An eighteenth-century Frenchman describes life in Paris, the events of the French Revolution, and his own fondness for pranks and jokes.

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