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Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France. May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (131st in leap years). ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ...
Cultural history, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. ...
(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964. He worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, and was President of the American Historical Association in 1987. As of 2005 he is Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1968. Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...
The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
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The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...
The American Historical Association (AHA) is a society of historians and teachers of history founded in 1884 and incorporated by the United States Congress in 1889. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article discusses the history of the continent of Europe. ...
Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ...
Darnton is a pioneer in the growing field of the history of the book. One of his books is The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996). He currently is writing about electronic publishing. He is founder of the Gutenberg-e program, sponsored by Mellon Foundation. The history of the book is the story of a suite of technological innovations that improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production. ...
Electronic publishing includes the digital publication of ebooks and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries. ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a foundation endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon. ...
In 1999 he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, the highest award given by the French government, in recognition of his work. French Legion of Honor The Légion dhonneur (Legion of Honor (AmE) or Legion of Honour (ComE)) is an Order of Chivalry awarded by the President of France. ...
He has been appointed Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library, effective July 1, 2007. The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, commonly known as Widener Library, is the primary building of the library system of Harvard University. ...
See also The history of the book is the story of a suite of technological innovations that improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production. ...
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