Robert Darnton: 10 books

Book cover of Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
by Robert Darnton
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014

“Splendid. . . . [Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight.”—Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped...
Book cover of A Literary Tour de France

A Literary Tour de France

The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

by Robert Darnton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018

The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books...
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Die Zensoren

Wie staatliche Kontrolle die Literatur beeinflusst hat

by Robert Darnton
Language: German
Release Date: February 29, 2016

Der Zensor, dein Freund und Überwacher. Ein faszinierendes Stück Kulturgeschichte Der Zensor als systemtreuer, ignoranter Bürokrat, der einem autoritären, repressiven Staat dient und der Literatur erheblichen Schaden zufügt – dies ist das gängige Bild. Dass es jedoch viel zu kurz greift,...
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Censores trabajando

De cómo los Estados dieron forma a la literatura

by Robert Darnton
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 12, 2015

Robert Darnton expone en esta obra que si se resaltan las particularidades de cada caso se confirmará que la censura tiene la huella de quien la práctica. Con tal fin estudia tres casos de distintas épocas y lugares: la Francia borbónica, la India británica y el régimen comunista en Alemania...
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El diablo en el agua bendita

o el arte de la calumnia de Luis XIV a Napoleón

by Robert Darnton
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 26, 2014

Darnton nos ofrece un excelente estudio sobre el bajo mundo de las publicaciones literarias de la Francia del siglo xviii, mostrando un interesante análisis sobre su utilización para publicar difamaciones y calumnias, además de expresar fuertes críticas respecto a las prácticas cotidianas de...
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The Great Cat Massacre

And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

by Robert Darnton
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009

The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it...
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The Case for Books

Past, Present, and Future

by Robert Darnton
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009

The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have...
Book cover of Los best sellers prohibidos en Francia antes de la revolución
by Robert Darnton
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 18, 2014

El autor demuestra que los best sellers antes de la revolución, pese a su ilegalidad (o más bien, gracias a ella), eran los libros más peligrosos y escandalosos porque atacaban abiertamente al rey, por predicar el ateísmo o por ser pornográficos. Y todos ellos contenían un mensaje político...
Book cover of El coloquio de los lectores

El coloquio de los lectores

Ensayos sobre autores, manuscritos, editores y lectores

by Robert Darnton
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 2, 2016

La lectura como una práctica social, como símbolo de la modernidad y como metáfora del conocimiento. De las novelas pornográficas del siglo XVIII, la defensa del pensamiento ilustrado, la escritura de las" vidas privadas", a la vida social de Rousseau, todas nuevas pistas para la historia del libro.
Book cover of Read/Write Book

Read/Write Book

Le livre inscriptible

by Philippe Aigrain, Marin Dacos, Tim O'Reilly
Language: French
Release Date: March 3, 2010

En entrant dans l’ère de l’informatique en réseau, le livre devient inscriptible. Son développement ne suit plus la ligne droite de la traditionnelle chaîne du livre, mais se diffuse par ramifications réticulaires. Comme un oignon, il se pare de multiples couches d’informations, ajoutées...
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