Overview :Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German society. As the difficult process of reunific... Read More
Overview :At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of hist... Read More
Overview :When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the ... Read More
Overview :With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary ex... Read More
Overview :Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and pol... Read More
Overview :Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that a... Read More
Overview :The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the greatest works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Monte... Read More
Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :A pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle A... Read More
Overview :George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had set... Read More
Overview :French literature of the eighteenth century means to us today Rousseau and Voltaire and the "classic" texts that, we imagine, gave rise to t... Read More
Overview :In the late-18th century in Paris, a group of booksellers and printers gained a dominant position in the sale and distribution of the writin... Read More
Overview :The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentic... Read More
Overview :Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroy... Read More