| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages :) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A trojan horse in parliament : international publicity in the age of the American Revolution / Will Slauter -- "The bastard child of a noble house" : detective and middle-class culture in interwar France / Sarah Maza -- Who were the booksellers and printers of eighteenth-century France? / Thierry Rigogne -- Making the fair trader : papermaking, the excise, and the English state, 1700-1815 / Leonard N. Rosenband -- Commerce with books : reading practices and book diffusion at the Habsburg Court in Florence (1765-1790) / Renato Pasta -- Invasion of Lorient : rumor, public opinion, and foreign politics in 1740s Paris / Tabetha Ewing -- Book seizures and the politics of repression in Paris, 1787-1789 / Thomas M. Luckett -- A Grub Street hack goes to war / David A. Bell -- Reading in extremis : revolutionaries respond to Rousseau / Carla Hesse -- Les graines de la discorde : print, public spirit, and free market politics in the French Revolution / Charles Walton -- The limits of tolerance : Jews, the Enlightenment, and the fear of premature burial / Jeffrey Freedman -- From cosmopolitan anticolonialism to liberal Imperialism : French intellectuals and Muslim North Africa in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Shanti Singham -- Appendix : publications by Robert Darnton |
| Summary |
"A collection of essays examining how print culture shaped the legacy of the Enlightenment. Explores the challenges, contradictions, and dilemmas modern European societies have encountered since the eighteenth century in trying to define, spread, and realize Enlightenment ideas and values"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
OldControl:muse9780271052373 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Enlightenment -- Influence
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Books and reading -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Books and reading -- France -- History -- 18th century
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Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Book industries and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Book industries and trade
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Books and reading
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Enlightenment -- Influence
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Intellectual life
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Education.
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Social Sciences.
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Book Studies & Arts.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
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France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051440
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| Subject |
Europe
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Darnton, Robert
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Walton, G. Charles (George Charles), 1966-
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| LC no. |
2011020753 |
| ISBN |
9780271059181 |
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0271059184 |
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9780271050720 |
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0271050721 |
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