A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year'Robert Darnton is one o...

Die gern geführte Rede, daß wir soeben in das Informationszeitalter eingetreten seien, verkennt, ...

George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left ...

His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France...

At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertainin...

The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the ...

Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German so...

A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the YearA brilliant account of t...

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer arrived in Paris and began to promulgate an exotic theory of he...

'We are given a vivid sense of how songs were circulated and performed on the streets of Paris......

A renowned historian and pioneering scholar in the history of the book--a leading voice in the de...

Ci sono opere che hanno letteralmente cambiato il panorama della civiltà, e a questa categoria ap...

Non c¿è dubbio: è all¿immenso potere dei libri che si deve la diffusione dell¿Illuminismo. Ma com...

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

I grandi filosofi dell'Illuminismo, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot e i loro blasonati contemporanei ...

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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global conseque...

La figura del philosophe surgida en Francia a principios del siglo XVIII generó, en paralelo a su...

Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in ...

The story of how book piracy in pre-Revolutionary France expanded the reach of the works that wou...

With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical wo...

The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los ...

A pesar de lo que creemos, las sociedades humanas contaban con espacios de debate colectivo mucho...

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global conseque...

The Writer's Lot explores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors-celebrities and ...