Simon Burrows is Professor of History at Western Sydney University, Australia. His many publications include A King's Ransom (2010), and The Chevalier d'Eon and His Worlds, edited with Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne and Valerie Mainz (2010).

Using the latest digital-humanities techniques, Simon Burrows's book gives us new insights into the readers and publishers of the Enlightenment era. His conclusions challenge the popular interpretations of scholars such as Robert Darnton and Jonathan Israel and force us to rethink the notion of “Enlightenment bestsellers”. This is a valuable contribution to book history and the history of the circulation of ideas.

• 1. At the Shield of Minerva2. The Elusive Enlightenment3. The Book in Enlightenment Culture4. Searching (for) Enlightenment in a Swiss Printshop5. The Intellectual Geography of the STN6. Forgotten Bestsellers7. Troubling Taxonomies8. The Anatomy of the Illegal Sector9. Enlightened Cosmopolitanism and Novel Concerns10. Of Science, Faith and Reason11. From Swiss Politics to Revolutionary History12. ConclusionAppendix 1: Designer Notes on the French Book Trade DatabaseAppendix 2: Towards a Digital History of the BookBibliographyIndex

Simon Burrows is Professor of History at Western Sydney University, Australia. His many publications include A King's Ransom (2010), and The Chevalier d'Eon and His Worlds, edited with Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne and Valerie Mainz (2010).

Using the latest digital-humanities techniques, Simon Burrows's book gives us new insights into the readers and publishers of the Enlightenment era. His conclusions challenge the popular interpretations of scholars such as Robert Darnton and Jonathan Israel and force us to rethink the notion of “Enlightenment bestsellers”. This is a valuable contribution to book history and the history of the circulation of ideas.

• 1. At the Shield of Minerva2. The Elusive Enlightenment3. The Book in Enlightenment Culture4. Searching (for) Enlightenment in a Swiss Printshop5. The Intellectual Geography of the STN6. Forgotten Bestsellers7. Troubling Taxonomies8. The Anatomy of the Illegal Sector9. Enlightened Cosmopolitanism and Novel Concerns10. Of Science, Faith and Reason11. From Swiss Politics to Revolutionary History12. ConclusionAppendix 1: Designer Notes on the French Book Trade DatabaseAppendix 2: Towards a Digital History of the BookBibliographyIndex

Simon Burrows is Professor of History at Western Sydney University, Australia. His many publications include A King's Ransom (2010), and The Chevalier d'Eon and His Worlds, edited with Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne and Valerie Mainz (2010).

Using the latest digital-humanities techniques, Simon Burrows's book gives us new insights into the readers and publishers of the Enlightenment era. His conclusions challenge the popular interpretations of scholars such as Robert Darnton and Jonathan Israel and force us to rethink the notion of “Enlightenment bestsellers”. This is a valuable contribution to book history and the history of the circulation of ideas.

• 1. At the Shield of Minerva2. The Elusive Enlightenment3. The Book in Enlightenment Culture4. Searching (for) Enlightenment in a Swiss Printshop5. The Intellectual Geography of the STN6. Forgotten Bestsellers7. Troubling Taxonomies8. The Anatomy of the Illegal Sector9. Enlightened Cosmopolitanism and Novel Concerns10. Of Science, Faith and Reason11. From Swiss Politics to Revolutionary History12. ConclusionAppendix 1: Designer Notes on the French Book Trade DatabaseAppendix 2: Towards a Digital History of the BookBibliographyIndex