George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of a fellow human. With characteristic learning and bracing insight, Robert Darnton shows us that the Enlightenment had false teeth alsothat it was not the Father of Our Modern World, responsible for all its advances and transgressions. In restoring the Enlightenment to human scale, Darnton locates its real aims, ambitions, and significance. So too...
George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false...
Listen to "An Electronic Cabaret: Paris Street Songs, 1748-50" for songs from Poetry and the PoliceAudio recording copyright (c) 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.
In spring 1749, FranCois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an "abominable poem about the king." So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorized poetry recitals. Why was the official response to these poems so intense?
In this captivating book, Robert...
Listen to "An Electronic Cabaret: Paris Street Songs, 1748-50" for songs from Poetry and the PoliceAudio recording copyright (c) 2010 by the...
The era of the book as the unrivalled source and vehicle for knowledge is coming to an end. Digitization makes the physical properties of books disposable; e-book readers and mobile phones render them portable and accessible almost everywhere. This book assembles the writings Darnton has done on this subject.
The era of the book as the unrivalled source and vehicle for knowledge is coming to an end. Digitization makes the physical properties of books dispos...
Velký masakr koček amerického historika Roberta Darntona, poprvé vydaný v roce 1984, patří k základním a dnes již klasickým dílům kulturní historie a kulturní antropologie druhé poloviny 20. století. Autor v ní prostřednictvím šesti sond analyzuje myšlení francouzské předrevoluční společnosti 18. století. Ve svém zkoumání vyšel ze všeobecně známých pohádek, tradovaných ve Francii 18. století v nespočetných dialektech, jejichž vliv zasáhl jak elity, tak nejnižší vrstvy. Systematicky studoval a srovnával varianty zaznamenané folkloristy a...
Velký masakr koček amerického historika Roberta Darntona, poprvé vydaný v roce 1984, patří k základním a dnes již klasickým dílům kulturn...
