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The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Robert Darnton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.
The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Robert Darnton
Categories: Best sellers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:

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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Language: en
Pages: 548
Authors: Robert Darnton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-27 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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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
A Literary Tour de France
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Robert Darnton
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
Poetry and the Police
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Robert Darnton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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