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Synopsis

Darnton explores some fascinating territory in the genre of |histoire du livre,| and at the same time tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing. This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization.