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Author:   Charles Walton (Yale)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume:   15
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780271050126

ISBN 10:   0271050128
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Charles Walton “Un garçon plein d’esprit mais extrêmement dangereux: The Darnton Subversion” Roger Chartier Part 1: Making News 1 A Trojan Horse in Parliament: International Publicity in the Age of the American Revolution Will Slauter 2 “The Bastard Child of a Noble House”: Détective and Middle-Class Culture in Interwar France Sarah Maza Part 2: Print, Paper, Markets, and States 3 Who Were the Booksellers and Printers of Eighteenth-Century France? Thierry Rigogne 4 Making the Fair Trader: Papermaking, the Excise, and the English State, 1700–1815 Leonard N. Rosenband 5 Commerce with Books: Reading Practices and Book Diffusion at the Habsburg Court in Florence (1765–1790) Renato Pasta Part 3: Police and Opinion 6 Invasion of Lorient: Rumor, Public Opinion, and Foreign Politics in 1740s Paris Tabetha Ewing 7 Book Seizures and the Politics of Repression in Paris, 1787–1789 Thomas M. Luckett Part 4: Enlightenment in Revolution 8 A Grub Street Hack Goes to War David A. Bell 9 Reading in extremis: Revolutionaries Respond to Rousseau Carla Hesse 10 Les graines de la discorde: Print, Public Spirit, and Free Market Politics in the French Revolution Charles Walton Part 5: Enlightenment Universalism and Cultural Difference 11 The Limits of Tolerance: Jews, the Enlightenment, and the Fear of Premature Burial Jeffrey Freedman 12 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 List of Contributors Index

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Along with Daniel Roche, Robert Darnton has been the most influential historian of eighteenth-century France during the last four decades. From his early work on Mesmerism to his most recent study of communication networks in Enlightenment Paris, Darnton has written about an impressively broad array of topics, from peasant folk tales to the publishing business. . . . Charles Walton's volume will be of great interest to a wide audience because the chapters are skillfully compressed, providing the advanced undergraduate and graduate student accessible entry points into the historical debates and trends that Darnton has shaped. Because this volume contains contributions from leading historians who, like their mentor, are opening new vistas of French and European history, this collection is both a celebration of a pathbreaking past and an adumbration of a promising future. --Kenneth Loiselle, H-France Review

Along with Daniel Roche, Robert Darnton has been the most influential historian of eighteenth-century France during the last four decades. From his early work on Mesmerism to his most recent study of communication networks in Enlightenment Paris, Darnton has written about an impressively broad array of topics, from peasant folk tales to the publishing business. . . . Charles Walton s volume will be of great interest to a wide audience because the chapters are skillfully compressed, providing the advanced undergraduate and graduate student accessible entry points into the historical debates and trends that Darnton has shaped. Because this volume contains contributions from leading historians who, like their mentor, are opening new vistas of French and European history, this collection is both a celebration of a pathbreaking past and an adumbration of a promising future. </p> Kenneth Loiselle, <em>H-France Review</em></p>

This book is a treat. It is well produced and edited and comes with a very useful and comprehensive bibliography of Darnton s publications. Brandon High, Rare Books Newsletter

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Charles Walton is Associate Professor of History at Yale University.

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