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Robert Darnton
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 109
Citations - 5017
Robert Darnton is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural history & Enlightenment. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 107 publications receiving 4913 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Darnton include Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences & Princeton University.
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
TL;DR: Darnton as mentioned in this paper investigates why the apprentices of a Paris printing shop held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, and why they found it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times.
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What is the History of Books
TL;DR: The history of books as discussed by the authors is a rich field of research in the human sciences that has been studied since the time of the printing of the first book and has been called the social and cultural history of communication by print.
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France@@@The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789
Malcolm Cook,Robert Darnton +1 more
TL;DR: The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France as mentioned in this paper traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make fascinating reading more than two centuries later.
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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
TL;DR: The Mesmerist Movement and Popular Science: Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory as discussed by the authors is a well-known topic in science and science education in the 19th century.
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
TL;DR: The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France as discussed by the authors traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make fascinating reading more than two centuries later.