Business of enlightenment, the: a publishing history of the encyclopédie, 1775–1800
Auteur :
Darnton, Robert
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674087866
Date de publication :
1 janv. 1987
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 3,6 cm
Poids :
907 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.