Archivo de la etiqueta: Darnton
Robert Darnton y la gran Biblioteca Nacional Digital
Yo solía ser un profesor, como muchas personas, y un día recibí una llamada de Harvard que decía: “¿Le gustaría ser el director de nuestra biblioteca? Me dije a mí mismo: “Aquí hay una oportunidad de hacer una diferencia; de … Sigue leyendo
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Singing in the streets of Paris: an eighteenth century way to undermine censorship
PCV.— In the following interview, the historian Robert Darnton talks about what he knows better: books and communication in the century of Enlightenment. Based, as usual, in the French experience, the author traces a path through the mechanisms of the … Sigue leyendo
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Why the cat massacre of the rue Saint-Séverin was so funny?
PCV.— In the first post of this series about The Great Cat Massacre, we emphasized the attempt of the author: the american historian Robert Darnton begins a journey through the ways of thinking in eighteenth century France. The second chapter … Sigue leyendo
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Robert Darnton and The Great Cat Massacre: Introduction
PCV.— According to Peter Burke, the historian-journalist Robert Darnton used to read Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy hiding the book inside a Playboy magazine, while he worked at The New York Times. That is part of the myth. The … Sigue leyendo
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