Robert Darnton

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Robert Darnton

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library

Robert Darnton has written and edited two dozen books, including The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie(1979, an early attempt to develop the history of books as a field of study), and The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984, probably his most popular work).  Read more.