Robert Darnton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-31018-4
These firsthand but uneven reports from respected scholar Darnton describe the momentous events (public demonstrations, the crumbling of the Berlin Wall) that led to Germany's reunification. (July)
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Robert Darnton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-393-31442-7
In this NBCC finalist, cultural historian Darnton examines subversive French works of the 1780s, arguing that these underground books were as influential as more classic Enlightenment fare. (Apr.)
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Robert Darnton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-393-02753-2
When bishop Antoine Lamourette, a deputy in the French Revolution, proposed fraternal love as the key to uniting divided factions, his speech moved members of the legislative assembly to hugs and kisses. Taking this event as a starting point,...
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Robert Darnton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-02970-3
A scholar of the French Revolution, Darnton ( The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History ) spent the 1989-1990 academic year in Berlin, where he witnessed the popular uprising in the East that transformed both Germanies. His essays here
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Robert Darnton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $27.5 (440p) ISBN 978-0-393-03720-3
More specialized than The Great Cat Massacre, Darnton's latest still cogently demonstrates through tables, case studies, analysis and anecdotes just how different the pre-Revolutionary French were from postmodern Americans. In this second volume of...
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Robert Darnton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-05760-7
As Princeton history professor Darnton notes in his introduction,""everything about the eighteenth century is strange, once you examine it in detail."" His pleasingly eccentric book of essays offers many surprising supporting examples. But this isn't
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Robert Darnton, Author . Public Affairs $23.95 (218p) ISBN 978-1-58648-826-0
Is the age of the printed book coming to an end? If history is any guide, notes Harvard University Library director Darnton, not any time soon. In this collection of previously published essays, an “unashamed apology for the printed word,”
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Robert Darnton, Author . Univ. of Pennsylvania $34.95 (534p) ISBN 978-0-8122-4183-9
In this complement to his NBCC award–winning Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France,
Harvard librarian Darnton chronicles in scholarly detail (with 74 pages of notes) and well-selected illustrations the role of libel and slander...
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Robert Darnton. Harvard/Belknap, $29.95 (210pp) ISBN 978-0-674-05715-9
Darnton (The Case for Books), a professor at Harvard and author of several books, writes wonderfully about the development of communication. Even as literacy was improving in the 18th century, communication was primarily oral, and could be a runner,
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Robert Darnton. Norton, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-24229-4
Darnton (The Case for Books), director of the University Library at Harvard, examines the complex relationship between central government censorship and authors, particularly how attempts to control communication and information have both improved...
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Robert Darnton. Norton, $45 (576p) ISBN 978-1-324-03558-9
Historian Darnton (Pirating and Publishing) offers a sweeping account of “how Parisians experienced” the decades leading up to the French Revolution. Following the shifting textures of public opinion through “conversations in cafes... underground...
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Robert Darnton. Belknap, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-674-29988-7
Historian Darnton (The Revolutionary Temper) delivers a fascinating examination of the rise of the writer-as-public-figure in revolutionary France. He vividly depicts a revolutionary milieu in which, for every towering figure like Voltaire or...
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