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  • The Revolutionary Temper

    Paris, 1748-1789

    by Robert Darnton ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice“This captivating history of the decades leading up to the French Revolution…immerse[s] readers in what agitated Parisians read, wore, ate and sang on the way to toppling the monarchy of Louis XVI.” —New York Times Book ReviewA groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim.**When a Parisian crowd ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    by Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Business of Enlightenment

    A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775–1800

    by Robert Darnton ...
    ”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 Encyclopédie is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Writer's Lot

    Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

    by Robert Darnton ...
    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 monarchy. Whether scribbling in dreary garrets or philosophizing in salons, they exerted so much ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Censors at Work

    How States Shaped Literature

    by Robert Darnton ...
    "Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of BooksWith 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Poetry and the Police

    Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Robert Darnton ...
    “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 SupplementIn spring 1749, François Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an “abominable poem about the king.” So began the Affair of the ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Pirating and Publishing

    The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment

    by Robert Darnton ...
    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 laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of "copyright" very much in its infancy. Piracy was ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Case for Books

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Robert Darnton ...
    The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway of history. Today, nearly one million books are published each year. But is the era of the book as we know it -- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Interpretation of Cultures

    by Clifford Geertz ...
    A classic work of anthropology that offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture isNamed one of the 100 most important books published since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement“As an anthropologist, philosopher, political scientist, literary critic, and all-around, all-star intellectual, Clifford Geertz helped a vast public make sense of the human condition.” —Robert Darnton, New ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Literary Tour de France

    The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

    by Robert Darnton ...
    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 of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Bohemians

    Translated by Vivian Folkenflik ...
    by Anne Gédéon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport ...
    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 novel—one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade's neighbor, the marquis de Pelleport, is almost completely unknown today, and his novel, Les Bohémiens ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Knowledge Unbound

    Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002-2011

    by Peter Suber ...
    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 full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD