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The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II - Enlightenment Bestsellers

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Informationen zum Autor Simon Burrows is a leading scholar of European print culture and French political life in the period 1760-1815. In the course of a rich career, he has worked at the Universities of Waikato (New Zealand), Leeds (UK) and is currently Professor of History at Western Sydney University, Australia. He has published six books as author or co-editor and over 20 articles and chapters in well-received themed collections. He is the principal investigator of the highly acclaimed French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe database project, which was founded at the University of Leeds, funded by a research grant from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council between 2007 and 2011, and is now housed at UWS. Zusammenfassung 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 Société Typographique de Neuchâte l (STN), 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. At the Shield of Minerva2. The Elusive Enlightenment3. The Book in Enlightenment Culture4. Searching (for) Enlightenment in a Swiss Printshop5. The Intellectual Geography of the STN6. Forgotten Bestsellers7. Troubling Taxonomies8. The Anatomy of the Illegal Sector9. Enlightened Cosmopolitanism and Novel Concerns10. Of Science, Faith and Reason11. From Swiss Politics to Revolutionary History12. ConclusionAppendix 1: Designer Notes on the French Book Trade DatabaseAppendix 2: Towards a Digital History of the BookBibliographyIndex...

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