A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to
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This study offers a new reading of the development of modern authorship in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, t
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Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers
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From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of th
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This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one ex
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Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are
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How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science cont
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“For anyone who wants an insight into the nature of Russian society before the revolution, there is no doubt that Profes
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This study engages in a detailed examination of Kierkegaard’s works of literary and dramatic criticism, including those
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The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern
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