“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“To eat one's fill, eat until the exhaustion of the appetite, was the principal pleasure that the peasants dangled before their imagination, and one that they rarely realized in their lives. They [the peasants] also imagined other dreams coming true,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
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