Books by Robert (Harvard University) Darnton

A master historian's excavations into the past unearth a world that is unexpected and compelling.

Having thoroughly mined the sources, Darnton provides a trove of information on the illegal literature of Old Regime France. The result is an invaluable resource to specialists in French cultural history, the history of the book, the social history of ideas, and problems of censorship and state control of ideas.

"Makes us appreciate something of what it felt like for Germans East and West as the world ended." -Anthony Bailey, New York Times Book Review