Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195144529ISBN-10:019514452XUPC:9780195144529Book Category:History, Business & Economics, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Europe, Economic History, EuropeanBook Topic:France, FrenchSize:9.30 x 6.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.541Product ID:SCDK2MHJZ6
Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of "copyright" very much in its infancy. Piracy was...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195144529ISBN-10:019514452XUPC:9780195144529Book Category:History, Business & Economics, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Europe, Economic History, EuropeanBook Topic:France, FrenchSize:9.30 x 6.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.541Product ID:SCDK2MHJZ6
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus of Harvard University, and the author of The Great Cat Massacre (1984) and A Literary Tour de France (2018), among others.
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