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33 produkter
Revolutionary Temper
Paris, 1748-1789
Häftad, 2025
149 kr
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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 the outcome of underlying conditions such as a …
Case for Books
Past, Present, and Future
Häftad, 2010
201 kr
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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 dispensers of digital information. Already, more books …
Revolutionary Temper
Paris, 1748–1789
Häftad, 2025
210 kr
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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 Revolution’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the …
Fronesis 78-79. Yttrandefrihet
Av Nils Funcke, Fredrich Heger m. fl.
2023
145 kr
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YTTRANDEFRIHET Fronesis nr 78–79 är ett fullspäckat nummer utan döda punkter. Yttrandefrihetsexperten Nils Funcke tecknar historien om yttrandefrihetens reglering i Sverige under de senaste tjugo åren – och det är ingen uppmuntrande läsning. Arbetsrättsspecialisten Friedrich Heger skriver om …
Literary Tour de France
The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution
E-bok, 2018
506 kr
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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 order to cater to a reading public''s appetite for …
Literary Tour de France
The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution
E-bok, 2018
506 kr
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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 order to cater to a reading public''s appetite for …
A Literary Tour de France
The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution
Inbunden, 2018
714 kr
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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 order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books …
Pirating and Publishing
The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2021
561 kr
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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) French writers and distributed them in France, where …
Pirating and Publishing
The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
E-bok, 2021
413 kr
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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) French writers and distributed them in France, where …
Pirating and Publishing
The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
E-bok, 2021
413 kr
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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) French writers and distributed them in France, where …
Revolutionary Temper
Paris, 1748–1789
E-bok, 2023
147 kr
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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 Revolution’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the …
Kiss of Lamourette
Reflections in Cultural History
Häftad, 1991
386 kr
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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 includes the wonderful story of the moment in 1792 …
Berlin Journal, 1989-1990
Häftad, 1993
324 kr
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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 Leipzig and Berlin under the banner “We Are the …
Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
Häftad, 1996
427 kr
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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 fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make …
Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789
Häftad, 1995
320 kr
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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 world, constructed by Robert Darnton based on his many …
George Washington's False Teeth
An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2003
287 kr
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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 a fellow human. With characteristic learning and …
Censors at Work
How States Shaped Literature
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
346 kr
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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 in making literature by navigating the intricate …
Great Cat Massacre
And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Häftad, 2009
271 kr
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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 pantomime some twenty times? Why in the …
Poetry and the Police
Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Häftad, 2012
290 kr
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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 student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off …
Business of Enlightenment
A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775–1800
Häftad, 1987
467 kr
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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 BooksA great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Robert Darnton’s history of the …
Writer's Lot
Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2025
246 kr
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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, shaped public opinion, and helped topple the Bourbon …
Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Häftad, 1985
344 kr
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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 BooksRobert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, …
Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
Häftad, 1986
383 kr
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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.” —ScienceEarly in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a …
Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Häftad, 2011
518 kr
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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 been more the case than in eighteenth-century France, …
Revolutionary Temper
Paris, 1748-1789
Inbunden, 2023
410 kr
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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 the outcome of underlying conditions such as a …
Brissot and books
Author-publisher relations in the age of Enlightenment
Häftad, 2026
1761 kr
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This book opens up a new view of cultural history in the age of Enlightenment. By close study of the relations between a French author and a Swiss publisher, it gives an inside view of how French books were produced and distributed in the literary underground.
El diablo en el agua bendita
o el arte de la calumnia de Luis XIV a Napoleón
Av Robert Darnton, Pablo Duarte
E-bok, 2014
159 kr
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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 críticas respecto a las prácticas cotidianas de las …
Censores trabajando
De cómo los Estados dieron forma a la literatura
Av Robert Darnton, Mariana Ortega
E-bok, 2015
100 kr
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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 India británica y el régimen comunista en Alemania …
Un magno tour literario por Francia
El mundo de los libros en vísperas de la Revolución francesa
E-bok, 2022
83 kr
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Robert Darnton analiza el comercio de libros en los años previos a la Revolución francesa. Su estudio atraviesa diversos temas, como las prácticas editoriales de la época, los canales de venta y distribución, el papel de los vendedores de libros y la demanda literaria. El hilo conductor es un …
