The Business of Enlightenment

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Darnton explores some fascinating territory in the genre of histoire du livre and tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing.

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Historical and Literary Studies Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought Media, Communication, and Education

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Published in: Harvard University Press eBooks

DOI: 10.4159/9780674030183

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