Darnton, Robert

Darnton, Robert (Choate)

(1939–  ) historian; born in New York City. Educated at Harvard and Oxford (D.Phil. 1964), he began as a reporter for the New York Times in New York and England before commencing a teaching career at Harvard (1965–68) and Princeton (1968). His interest in the social history of ideas resulted in a series of studies of books, authors, and public opinion in pre-Revolutionary France, including The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984).
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DARNTON, Robert. Boemia literaria e Revolucao: o submundo das letras no Antigo Regime.
The French Revolution revisited/A Revolucao Francesa revisitada
Darnton, Robert. "Google and the Digital Future." The New York Review.
McLuhan and the humanities
Darnton, Robert. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France.
Gender and universal fluid in Theophile Gautier

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