Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment

by Robert Darnton

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 entirely legal and everyone acknowledged -- tacitly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019514452X
• ISBN13: 9780195144529
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"