The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
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 involv… - Robert Darnton
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 involv…
- Robert Darnton
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. - Robert Darnton
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. - Robert Darnton
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian. - Robert Darnton
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google woul… - Robert Darnton
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google woul…
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 … - Robert Darnton
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 …
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. - Robert Darnton
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Digital data are more fragile than printed material. - Robert Darnton
Digital data are more fragile than printed material.
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was … - Robert Darnton
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was …
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