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8. The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
by Robert Darnton
In Paris in the late 1730s an extraordinary event occurred. Two printing-shop apprentices rounded up the neighbourhood cats, including their mistress ... More
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9. The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
by Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies ... More
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10. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
by 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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11. The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
by Robert Darnton
A renowned historian and pioneering scholar in the history of the book--a lead voice in the debate about the digital future of books and knowledge- ... More
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12. The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-revolutionary France
by Robert Darnton
List of all editionsWhat causes revolutions? How does public opinion influence events? This work answers these questions by asking what the French people read in the ... More
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13. The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
by Robert Darnton
Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroying ... More
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14. George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
by Robert Darnton
With characteristic learning and bracing insight, Darnton shows us that the Enlightenment had false teeth also--that it was not the Father of Our ... More
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15. What Was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?
by Robert Darnton, Darnton
List of all editionsRobert Darnton offers a reasoned defense of what the French revolutionaries were trying to achieve, and urges us to look beyond political events to ... More
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16. The Business of Enlightenment: Publishing History of the "Encyclop?die," 1775-1800
by Robert Darnton
A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the "Encyclopedie" is such an occasion. The author ... More
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17. The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789
by Robert Darnton
The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the greatest works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, ... More
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18. Berlin Journal, 1989-1990
by Robert Darnton
In 1989-1990 the East German people courageously reclaimed authority from a postwar dictatorship of party and state. In an exhilarating eyewitness ... More
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20. The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
by Robert Darnton
In this collection of cultural essays, the author explores the boundaries between past and present. Robert Darnton is the author of "The Great Cat ... More
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21. The Kiss of the Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
by Robert Darnton
List of all editionsIn this collection of cultural essays, the author explores the boundaries between past and present. Robert Darnton is the author of "The Great Cat ... More
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23. La Gran Matanza de Gatos y Otros
by Robert Darnton
List of all editionsEste conjunto de ensayos estudia la forma de pensar en Francia en el siglo XVIII. Intenta mostrar lo que la gente pensaba y como lo pensaba; como ... More
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