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The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II - Enlightenment Bestsellers (Hardcover)
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The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II - Enlightenment Bestsellers (Hardcover)
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This is a rich and path-breaking comparative study of reading
tastes in the final years of old regime Europe. Based on extensive
research in the account books of the Swiss publishers, the "Societe
typographique de Neuchate"l, and related archives, it charts the
dissemination of literature and reading tastes across Europe in the
years leading up to the French revolution. In the process, it
recasts our understanding of late 18th-century print culture and
the contours of the enlightenment. The fruit of a widely acclaimed
five year database project, the STN database, it is also a story of
pioneering efforts to apply the latest digital technology and GIS
mapping techniques to traditional historical and bibliographic
problems.Although written to serve as a standalone study, this book
is ideally complemented by its companion volume, Mark Curran's "The
French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling
Enlightenment," which offers a radical reinterpretation of the
structure and practices of the European book trade.The STN database
is now recognised as a cutting-edge digital project of global
significance. Robert Darnton has called it "a prodigious
accomplishment and a joy to use" while Jeremy Popkin adds, "No one
working in the field of French Enlightenment studies ... can afford
to ignore the rich mine of data that Simon Burrows and his
collaborators have made accessible, in an eminently usable form,
and the new possibilities it opens up for scholars." "The French
Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe" I and II offer a roadmap of
that data and what it can show us. ""
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