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A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year 'Robert Darnton is one of the world's greatest historians, and this is an exceptional book: a huge social and cultural portrait of Paris in the build-up to the French Revolu...

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A pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner. In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged as a new kind of power. They stirred passions, s...

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His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fic...

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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 historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as th...

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With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated ...

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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 historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as th...

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The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispe...

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The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in ord...

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The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in ord...

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The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in ord...

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In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" - countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland - pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) F...

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In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "e;Fertile Crescent"e; - countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland - pirated the works of prominent (and oft...

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In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "e;Fertile Crescent"e; - countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland - pirated the works of prominent (and oft...

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A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year Robert Darnton is one of the world s greatest historians, and this is an exceptional book: a huge social and cultural portrait of Paris in the build-up to the French Revolut...

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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. Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked...

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At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" -this section in...

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Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German society. As the difficult process of reunification continues, it is worth recalling the revolutionary moment when immense crowds took to the streets of ...

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The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the greatest works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Diderot, as well as the scandalous books of grub street writers. Here we have a map of that wor...

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George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of...

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When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in ...

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"We are given a vivid sense of how songs were circulated and performed on the streets of Paris?Darnton has opened up another rich vein of research in the eighteenth century." -Times Literary Supplement In spring 1749, François Bonis, a medical stu...

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"A major achievement of American scholarship and in the first rank of those which have been transforming our view of French history during the last twenty years." -New York Review of Books A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in...

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"This is splendid historical writing?Darnton [has] a well-justified reputation as one of the most original contributors to our understanding of life in pre-revolutionary Paris." -New York Review of Books Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy...

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"[An] excellent and exemplary study in the history of ideas?Provides a commendable model for those interested in the way 'true' and 'false' ideas interact and broadly influence behavior." -Science Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese phys...

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A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year 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...

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While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novelone equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the c...

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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 reputations, it has often helped to delegitimize regimes and bring down governments. Nowhere has this b...

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Darnton nos ofrece un excelente estudio sobre el bajo mundo de las publicaciones literarias de la Francia del siglo xviii, mostrando un interesante análisis sobre su utilización para publicar difamaciones y calumnias, además de expresar fuertes...

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Robert Darnton expone en esta obra que si se resaltan las particularidades de cada caso se confirmará que la censura tiene la huella de quien la práctica. Con tal fin estudia tres casos de distintas épocas y lugares: la Francia borbónica, la I...

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