A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Robert Darnton's history o...

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate...

Rediscovered by Robert Darnton and brought gloriously back to life in Vivian Folkenflik's tran...

The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes r...

Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and doc...

Darnton nos ofrece un excelente estudio sobre el bajo mundo de las publicaciones literarias de la...

La lectura como una practica social, como simbolo de la modernidad y como metafora del conocimien...

El autor demuestra que los best sellers antes de la revolucion, pese a su ilegalidad (o mas bien,...

Robert Darnton expone en esta obra que si se resaltan las particularidades de cada caso se confir...

The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes r...

With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical wo...