At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" -this section includes the wonderful story of the moment in 1792 when all the delegates in the French Legislative Assembly kissed each other; "Media," on television, pounding a newspaper beat, and tips to academics on how to get a book published; "The Printed Word," with an essay on the history of books; "The Lay of the Land," on aspects of intellectual history; and "Good Neighbors," on the relation of history to literature anthropology, and the sociology of knowledge.

About the Author
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of many acclaimed, widely translated works in French history that have won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A scholar of global stature, he is a Chevalier in the Legion d'honneur and winner of the National Humanities Medal. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Book Information
ISBN 9780393307528
Author Robert Darnton
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 452g
Dimensions(mm) 206mm * 127mm * 28mm