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Robert Darnton

Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France.

He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016.

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Mesmerism and the end of the enlightenment in France

by Robert Darnton First published in 1968
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The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France

by Robert Darnton
First published in 1995
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The kiss of Lamourette: reflections in cultural history

by Robert Darnton First published in 1990
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The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history

by Robert Darnton
First published in 1984
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The great cat massacre: and other episodes in French cultural history

by Robert Darnton First published in 1984
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The business of enlightenment

by Robert Darnton First published in 1979
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The Literary underground of the Old Regime

by Robert Darnton First published in 1982
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The case for books: past, present, future

by Robert Darnton
First published in 2009
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L' édition neuchâteloise au siècle des Lumières: la Société typographique de Neuchâtel, 1769-1789 : recueil d'études

by Robert Darnton First published in 2002
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Read/Write Book: Le livre inscriptible

by Marin Dacos, Philippe Aigrain, Antoine Blanchard, Robert Darnton, Milad Doueihi, Fabrice Epelboin, Joël Faucilhon, Hubert Guillaud, André Gunthert, and 5 others First published in 2009
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La fin des lumières

by Robert Darnton First published in 1995
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El Coloquio de Los Lectores

by Robert Darnton First published in 2003
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The devil in the holy water or the art of slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon

by Robert Darnton First published in 2009
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L'aventure de l'Encyclopédie, 1775-1800

by Robert Darnton First published in 1982
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The widening circle: essays on the circulation of literature in eighteenth-century Europe

by Robert Darnton First published in 1976
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Media & Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century

by Robert Darnton First published in 2004
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Worlds of Print

by Robert Darnton First published in 2006
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Edicion y Subversion: Literatura Clandestina en el Antiguo Regimen (Coleccion Noema)

by Robert Darnton First published in 2006
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Boken i rännstenen: bland författare, kolportörer och boktryckare i Upplysningstidens undre värld

by Robert Darnton and Ulf Gyllenhak First published in 1984
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ID Numbers

OLID: OL583009A
GoodReads: 198840
ISNI: 0000000121469084
Library of Congress Names: n82020431
LibraryThing: darntonrobert
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV075800
VIAF: 108286019
Wikidata: Q964180
Inventaire.io: wd:Q964180

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Robert F. Darnton
Robert Darnton
R. F. Darnton

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