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Robert Darnton

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

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I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

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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.

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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 it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.

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My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

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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 in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

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