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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. In retrospect we u

A warm and funny stage-by-stage tour through all the sizes of a growing baby – from teeny-tiny poppy seed to giant watermelon – from an exciting new p

Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.

A classic work of European history

The Darkling gently folded me in his arms. He pressed a kiss to the top of my hair. "I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French bor

"Splendid... [Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight."-Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of

Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroying reputa

In spring 1749, François Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an “abominable poem

"Learned and lively essays. . . . Each subject [Darnton] investigates-from the history of reading to Andrzej Wajda's film 'Danton'-has its own fascina

Ontwikkelingspsychologie is een uitgebreide inleiding in het vakgebied. Het laat je kennismaken met de basistheorieën, het onderzoek en de toepassinge

Twee ‘bloedbroeders’ in de Poolse ondergrondse strijd tegen het communistische regime gaan na de ineenstorting van het communisme hun eigen weg. De en

Geopolitiekexpert Robert D. Kaplan verlegt zijn blik naar het Grotere Midden-Oosten ‘Een levendige en uitdagende nieuwe studie over de machtige mogen

Sail the high seas between worlds with this first book in a new sizzling fantasy romance series from the New York Times bestselling author of the TikT

De verwarring van een jonge Törless, Robert Musils eerste roman uit 1906, beschrijft het machtsmisbruik, het snobisme en de genadeloze homo-erotische

Significantly expanded and updated in light of the most recent scholarship, the second edition of Garland's engaging introduction to ancient Greek soc

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Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina