Everyday Life in the German Book Trade: Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of the Enlightenment 1750 -1810. By Pamela E. Selwyn. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. xvi + 419 pages. $75.00.

Monatshefte ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol XCVI (4) ◽  
pp. 600-601
Author(s):  
J. van der Laan
2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-207
Author(s):  
Greg Matthews

Appearing as a title in the Penn State Series in the History of the Book, Into Print is a collection of twelve essays demonstrating a debt to Robert Darnton’s ground-breaking scholarship on the social history of ideas (Walton, vii; Pasta, 82). Divided into five thematic parts (“Making News,” “Print, Paper, Markets, and States,” “Police and Opinion,” “Enlightenment in Revolution,” and “Enlightenment Universalism and Cultural Difference”), it includes contributions from scholars, primarily historians, who studied under Darnton. Editor Charles Walton points out in his superb preface that, while topics covered are diverse, each essay exhibits Darnton’s influence by “analyzing the dynamic . . .


2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-71
Author(s):  

Please contact Christine DeZelar-Tiedman ([email protected]) if you are interested in reviewing one of the resources listed below. Books Arnar, Anna Sigrídur. The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Cullingford, Alison. The Special Collections Handbook. London: Facet Publishing (dist. by Neal-Schuman), 2011. Cuno, James. Museums Matter: in Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment: Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. Ed. by Charles Walton. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011


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