Author: ROBERT DARNTON
Title: The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France
Description: W.W. Norton, 1995. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 440. What were the ideological origins of the French Revolution? What were the connections between this epochal event and the eighteenth-century revolution in thought, the Enlightenment? How did ideas penetrate politics and society two centuries ago? How does public opinion influence events? To address these big questions in the history of the modern world, the distinguished historian Robert Darnton poses a comparatively small one: What did the French read in the eighteenth century? The answer lies only partially in the canon of the great Enlightenment philosophes: Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau. More popular than these works - indeed, the best-sellers of their time - were other books, also banned by the regime, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that undercut all the orthodox values of the Old Regime. ISBN: 9780393037203. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780393037203
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Title: The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France
Description: W.W. Norton, 1995. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 440. What were the ideological origins of the French Revolution? What were the connections between this epochal event and the eighteenth-century revolution in thought, the Enlightenment? How did ideas penetrate politics and society two centuries ago? How does public opinion influence events? To address these big questions in the history of the modern world, the distinguished historian Robert Darnton poses a comparatively small one: What did the French read in the eighteenth century? The answer lies only partially in the canon of the great Enlightenment philosophes: Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau. More popular than these works - indeed, the best-sellers of their time - were other books, also banned by the regime, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that undercut all the orthodox values of the Old Regime. ISBN: 9780393037203. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780393037203
Price: EUR 20.00 = appr. US$ 21.74 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2069332
- Book number: 2069332
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