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According to Wikipedia , Robert Choate Darnton is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016. Life Darnton was born in New York City. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1957 and Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a PhD in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others. The title of his thesis was Trends in radical propaganda on the eve of the French Revolution . He worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1965 to 1968. Joining the Princeton University faculty in 1968, he was appointed Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. He was president of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies from 1987 to 1991, where he founded the East-West Seminar, now continued as the International Seminar for Early Career Scholars. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1999, where he founded the Gutenberg-e Program, sponsored by Mellon Foundation.
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1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 0 125 250 375 500 625 750 875 1000 1125 Published Works The Great Cat Massacre, and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1986) What is the History of Books (1982) (630)The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1996) Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968) The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1983) The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (1990) Writing News and Telling Stories (1975) (171)The business of enlightenment : a publishing history of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 (1980) An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris (2000) The High Enlightenment and the Low-Life of Literature in Pre-Revolutionary France (1971) First Steps Toward a History of Reading (1986) “WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF BOOKS?” REVISITED (2007) The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (2009) In Search of the Enlightenment: Recent Attempts to Create a Social History of Ideas (1971) The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe (1976) Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (2010) The Corpus Of Clandestine Literature In France, 1769-1789 (1995) The true history of fake news (2017) (40)A Cultural History of the French Revolution.@@@Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800. (1989) Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature (2014) The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800. (1980) The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon (2009) Literary Surveillance in the British Raj: The Contradictions of Liberal Imperialism (2001) The Symbolic Element in History (1986) Book Production in British India, 1850-1900 (2002) Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Eighteenth-Century France: A Case Study in the Sociology of Literature (1971) (22)The Research Library in the Digital Age (2008) (17)The Encyclopédie Wars of Prerevolutionary France (1973) What Was Revolutionary About The French Revolution (1990) (15)TWO PATHS THROUGH THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF IDEAS (1998) (14)The Grub Street Style of Revolution: J.-P. Brissot, Police Spy (1968) George Washington's false teeth (2003) (12)The science of piracy: a crucial ingredient in eighteenth-century publishing (2003) (11)Censorship, a Comparative View: France, 1789-East Germany, 1989 (1995) Mademoiselle Bonafon and the Private Life of Louis XV: Communication Circuits in Eighteenth-Century France (2004) Google's Loss: The Public's Gain (2011) (7)It Happened One Night (2004) (7)How historians play God (2003) Discourse and Diffusion (2005) Sounding the Literary Market in Prerevolutionary France (1984) On Clifford Geertz: field notes from the classroom. (2007) Old Books and E-Books (2007) Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books (2012) Trends in radical propaganda on the eve of the French Revolution (1782-1788) (1964) (5)Trade in the Taboo: The Life of a Clandestine Book Dealer in Prerevolutionary France (1976) The Business of Enlightenment, a Publishing History of the Encyclopédie 1775-1800 (1982) The memoirs of Lenoir, lieutenant de police of Paris, 1774–1785 (1970) The Forbidden Bestsellers of Prerevolutionary France (1989) Review of The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794 (2012) (3)Poetry and the Police (2012) The Demand for Literature in France, 1769–1789, and the Launching of a Digital Archive (2015) Private Lives and Public Affairs under the Ancien Regime (2004) (3)História, eventos e narrativa: incidentes e cultura do quotidiano (2005) Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 151, 2006 Lectures (2008) Blogging, Now and Then (250 Years Ago) (2013) A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution (2018) (2)More Than Words: The Printing Press and the French Revolution@@@Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800@@@Naissance du Journal Revolutionnaire, 1789@@@La Revolution du Journal, 1788-1794@@@Revolutionary News: The Press in France, 1789-1799 (1991) Policing Writers in Paris Circa 1750 (1984) From Printing Shop to Bookshelves: How Books Beganthe Journey to Enlightenment Libraries (2015) (1)Seven bad reasons not to study manuscripts (1994) (1)Omissions and Revisions in Enlightenment Book History: A Rejoinder to Robert Darnton (2017) (1)Both Sides of the Wall@@@After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin.@@@Berlin Journals, 1989-1990. (1992) Ctrl Space : Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (2002) (1)La Science de la contrefaçon (2008) VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4 (2005) A Very Different Paris (2015) (0)In Memoriam: A Frenchman's Recollections of the Great War (1984) Books in the British Raj: The ontradictions of Liberal Imperialism (2001) (0)Censorship in comparative perspective : France, 1789 - East Germany, 1989 (1995) (0)The Secular Continent of Baron de Lahontan (2016) (0)The Literary Revolution of 1789 (2010) 14. Intellectual and Cultural History (2020) Archives and the Digital Age: Mapping the Landscape and Creating New Partnerships [videorecording] (2011) (0)Volume Information (1968) The Digital Public Library of America: The Idea and Its Implementation (2012) MEMOIR: World War I: A Frenchman's Recollections (2016) (0)New Genres for Scholarship (2017) (0)Google e o novo futuro dixital (2010) (0)François Furet (27 March 1927-12 July 1997) (1999) (0)More than 3.700 guests from more than 80 countries have attended the Falling Walls Conferences in the past six years, among them over 400 young academics who received free access by scholarships. (2015) (0)ASECS at 50: Interview with Robert Darnton (2019) Great New Possibilities for the Library of Congress (2015) (0)ASECS at 50 Interview Series (2019) Censorship and Literary Transformation: Bourbon France, British India and Communist East Germany [Video] (2018) (0)How to Become a Celebrity (2015) (0)CBQ BOOKNOTES Condensed Reviews (2018) Books, Libraries, and the Digital Future (2013) (0)The Facts of Literary Life in Eighteenth Centure France (1988) (0)Does the Argentinian Nation Exist? Case Study of the Armed Conflict at Corrientes, Paraguay, Buenos Aires (1839-1847) (2013) (0)Introduction: Folklore and the historian (2012) (0)Reviews (2002) Contagion – Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics (2019) (0)PUBLISHING: A Survival Strategy for Academic Authors (2016) (0)The Research Library Today: Three Jeremiads in Search of a Happy Ending [videorecording] (2011) (0)The conscience of the cure (1999) (0)What American Century? (1999) Diffusion vs. discourse: conceptual shifts in intellectual history and historiography of the french revolution (1995) (0)La fin des lumières, fifty years later interview with Robert Darnton (2018) (0)Shifting Symbolic Scenery in Berlin (1997) (0)Q&A: Knowledge liberator. Interview by Jascha Hoffman. (2013) Stated Meeting-Cambridge (2011) (0)Old books and E-Books. The Gutemberg price acceptance speech of 2004 (2005) (0)Libraries, Books, and the Digital Future (2020) Chapter 4. From Printing Shop to Bookshelves How Books Began the Journey to Enlightenment Libraries (2015) Collecting and Researching in the History of Books (2005) Anthropology, History, and Clifford Geertz (2012) Bohemians Before Bohemianism (2006) (0)The Travels of a Publisher's Sales Rep, 1775–76 (2017) Devil in the Details (2004) Jefferson's Candle (2012) (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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