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On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language and Practices by Roger Chartier
Booksplease Price: £25.63The importance of history has been powerfully reaffirmed in recent years by the appearance of major new authors, pathbreaking works, and fresh interpretations of historical events, trends, and... -
The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France by Roger Chartier 9780691655659
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £48.02The first book-length presentation of Roger Chartier's work in English, this volume provides a vivid example of the new directions of cultural history in France. These essays probe the impact of... -
A History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance by Roger Chartier
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £38.72Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary... -
Won in Translation: Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe by Roger Chartier 9780812253832
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78In Won in Translation Roger Chartier, one of the world's leading historians of books, publishing, and reading, considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circulating... -
Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe... -
Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare: The Story of a Lost Play by Roger Chartier 9780745661841
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by... -
Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Ninteenth Century by Roger Chartier
Booksplease Price: £51.21In this book Roger Chartier and his associates explore the history of a cultural practice that has become common and widespread: the writing of letters. They begin by examining the invention of... -
Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century by Roger Chartier
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task... -
Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare: The Story of a Lost Play Roger Chartier (College de France) 9780745661858
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by... -
The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind: Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe by Roger Chartier 9780745656021
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author s or translator s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher... -
The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind: Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe by Roger Chartier 9780745656014
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher... -
The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Roger Chartier 9780804722674
Booksplease Price: £29.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804722674Author Directeur d'Etudes Roger ChartierFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Stanford... -
Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens by Nancy Luxon 9781517901110
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the... -
Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton by Charles Walton 9780271050720
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.33The famous clash between Edmund Burke and Tom Paine over the Enlightenment's "evil" or "liberating" potential in the French Revolution finds present-day parallels in the battle between those who see... -
Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens by Nancy Luxon 9781517901103
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the... -
Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715 by Mark Edward Motley 9780691602905
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and training for its... -
Servants and Masters in 18th-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty by Sarah C. Maza 9780691613048
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.20Here is the first major study of domestic service in France from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, describing its transformation from a male-oriented occupation,... -
Printed Propaganda under Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion by Joseph Klaits
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments developed systematic controls over the printed word... -
Readers and Reading by Andrew Bennett 9780582212909
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £55.31Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their products, but an important part of such work considers the end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the author... -
The Sociologist and the Historian by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745679594
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the... -
The Cultural Revolution of the Nineteenth Century: Theatre, the Book-Trade and Reading in the Transatlantic World by Marcia Abreu 9781350153905
Booksplease Price: £35.83The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'. From... -
A History of Reading in the West Guglielmo Cavallo (The University of Rome La Sapienza and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, respectively) 9780745630540
Booksplease Price: £26.90This path-breaking study will become the standard work on the history of reading in the West. It will be indispensable to students of cultural history, and to all those who want a fresh perspective... -
Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination by Laura Lee Downs 9780801444142
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.05France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and... -
A History of the Book in America: Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World by David D. Hall 9780807858264
Booksplease Price: £58.25The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run... -
The Sociologist and the Historian by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745679587
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the... -
The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-2014, Second Edition by Peter Burke 9780804795692
Booksplease Price: £25.05In the 20th century, historians began arguing for new ways of doing history. This "new history" movement called for a total history open to exploring every human activity. Instead of concentrating on... -
Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination by Laura Lee Downs
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and... -
The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson by Professor Mary Ellen Lamb
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier and... -
The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship by Megan Hale Williams
Booksplease Price: £24.80In The Monk and the Book, Megan Hale Williams argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery, thus... -
Tabula Picta: Painting and Writing in Medieval Law by Marta Madero 9780812241860
Booksplease Price: £43.64To whom does a painted tablet-a tabula picta-belong? To the owner of the physical piece of wood on which an image is painted? Or to the person who made the painting on that piece of wood? By... -
The Politics of Common Reading: Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894–1954 Joan Judge 9780226842813
Booksplease Price: £32.30Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954. What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions that punctuated... -
The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 - 2014 Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780745661131
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the... -
Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain by Fernando Bouza 9780812238051
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65In a provocative attempt to outline a history of communication during the Spanish Golden Age, Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain examines how speech, visual images, and... -
The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 - 2014 Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780745661148
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.40This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the... -
Between State and Market: Printing and bookselling in eighteenth-century France by Thierry Rigogne 9780729409070
Booksplease Price: £97.93How did print spread through France to become a major force during the eighteenth century? This question has remained unanswered because we know surprisingly little about the infrastructure of the... -
The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin 9780812240115
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82In The Censor, the Editor, and the Text, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. Hebrew... -
History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture by Georges Minois 9780801866470
Booksplease Price: £31.20In this compact and illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values-attitudes toward life and death, duty and honor, pain... -
Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918 by Bill Bell 9780192894694
Booksplease Price: £42.55This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard... -
The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes by Gary Taylor 9781137344205
Booksplease Price: £91.89Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's... -
Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth by Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.24Perhaps more than in any other city, Venice has been shaped by its environment. The lagoon on which it was built isolated the city's inhabitants from mainland Europe, forcing them to look seaward for...