Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Robert Darnton
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The Revolutionary Temper
A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the YearA brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most …
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
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 …
The Interpretation of Cultures
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new …
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien r gime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of …
A Literary Tour de France
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 …
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary …
Journal of My Life
An eighteenth-century Frenchman describes life in Paris, the events of the French Revolution, and his own fondness for pranks and jokes.
The Great Cat Massacre
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 …
Censors at Work
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 …
George Washington's False Teeth
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 …
The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
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 …
Poezija i politsija. Set kommunikatsij v Parizhe XVIII veka
Kniga professora Garvardskogo universiteta Roberta Darntona "Poezija i politsija" sochetaet v sebe priemy detektivnogo rassledovanija, istoricheskogo izyskanija i teoreticheskoj …