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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim.

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. In retrospect we understand the French Revolution as the outcome of such factors as a faltering economy and Enlightenment thought. But what did the Parisians themselves think they were doing-how did they understand their world? In this dazzling history, Robert Darnton draws on decades of study to conjure a past as...

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The story of how book piracy in pre-Revolutionary France expanded the reach of the works that would inspire momentous change.

Romanzi a chiave che svelano gli intrighi di corte, opere troppo fiacche quanto a faziosità socialista, storie d'amore in bengali da cui traspare l'odio per la dominazione inglese, e poi censori ormai insofferenti del loro lavoro, poliziotti sulle tracce di testi proibiti e appassionati bibliotecari indiani: sono solo alcuni dei protagonisti, di carta e in carne e ossa, di un libro dagli obiettivi non meno semplici che audaci - ripensare l'ide...

Il padre della patria George Washington aveva gravi problemi di denti - tant'è che a Mount Vernon sono conservate diverse dentiere: di legno, di avorio, di zanna di tricheco o di ippopotamo. A partire da una constatazione apparentemente marginale ed eterodossa, Robert Darnton, con erudizione e gusto nel narrare, ci porta all'interno di un mondo molto più complesso e contraddittorio da come emerge dalle interpretazioni della storiografia dell'I...

Based on decades of original research, an account of books and bookselling in a country on the brink of revolution.

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Nell'era digitale il libro resisterà, andrà in crisi o addirittura rinascerà a nuova vita? Google Books rappresenta una minaccia per il mercato, un'opportunità per la democratizzazione della conoscenza, o un'incognita per entrambi? Internet sarà la nuova biblioteca di Alessandria o un'incarnazione alienante e distopica della biblioteca di Babele? Nessuno meglio di Robert Darnton, insigne storico del libro e direttore di uno dei più importanti ...

Die gern geführte Rede, daß wir soeben in das Informationszeitalter eingetreten seien, verkennt, daß »Informationszeitalter« auch in der Vergangenheit schon existiert haben. Nur die Formen und die Medien der Verbreitung von Informationen waren andere.Im Paris des 18. Jahrhunderts bestanden in erster Linie mündliche Kommunikationssysteme, und Informationen verbargen sich oft in poetischen Texten, die der gewöhnliche Pariser in öffentlichen Gärt...

Robert Darnton führt den Leser in die dunkle, auch von der Wissenschaft bislang nicht ausgeleuchtete Welt der Raubdrucker, Hinterstubenverleger, Schmuggler und Polizeispitzel, die sich als literarischer Untergrund hinter der Fassade der Aufklärung gebildet hatte. So machen wir Bekanntschaft mit abenteuerlichen Autoren, die in Paris rechtswidrige Literatur produzierten, und mit den Druckern und Buchhändlern, die diese Literatur heimlich herstel...

The Darkling gently folded me in his arms. He pressed a kiss to the top of my hair. "I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no other shelter but me." For Alina, time is running out. To destroy the Darkling, she needs to find the elusive firebird, and she needs to find it soon. The Darkling's power is growing. And so is his connection to Alina. Can Alina escape the hold he has over her? Does she want to? Mal is t...

Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the Old Regime and became absorbed in a new, more radical, political culture under Robespierre.

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 fascinating reading more than two centuries later. French literature of the eighteenth century means to us today Rousseau and Voltaire and the "classic" text...

A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the "Encyclopedie" is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of "histoire du livre, " and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in th...

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas ar...

Il progetto di Darnton è estremamente ambizioso: si tratta, nelle parole dell'autore, "di mostrare non solo che cosa pensava la gente, ma come pensava - come interpretava il mondo, gli dava un senso e gli conferiva un significato emotivo". Così Darnton ha scelto la via di illuminare la sensibilità e i modi di vita del Settecento francese, in ambienti disparati, attraverso sei storie, in gran parte basate su inediti documenti di archivio, che q...

La figura del philosophe surgida en Francia a principios del siglo XVIII genero la aparicion de una multitud de escritores de fortuna que, unas veces de modo clandestino y por iniciativa propia, otras al servicio de terceros, produjeron una abundante cantidad de libelos contra las clases dominantes politicas, culturales o religiosas, anunciando la explosion social que tendria lugar a finales de siglo. Darnton, gran especialista en la vida inte...