A pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned...

Die gern geführte Rede, daß wir soeben in das Informationszeitalter eingetreten seien, verkennt, ...

George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left ...

At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertainin...

Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German so...

His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France...

The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are avail...

The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the ...

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the 'Ferti...