George Washington's False Teeth | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780393337471 | George Washington's False Teeth | Robert Darnton | Taschenbuch | 2003

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George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of a fellow human. With characteristic learning and bracing insight, Robert Darnton shows us that the Enlightenment had false teeth alsothat it was not the Father of Our Modern World, responsible for all its advances and transgressions. In restoring the Enlightenment to human scale, Darnton locates its real aims, ambitions, and significance. So too with the French Revolution, another icon of the eighteenth century, approached here through the gossip, songs, and broadsides that formed the political nervous system of Paris in the Old Regime. Figures we think we knowVoltaire, Jefferson, Rousseau, Condorcet, even historians themselvesemerge afresh in Darnton's hands, their vitality, if not their teeth, intact. 17 b/w illustrations.

Über den Autor

Robert Darnton is the author of many award-winning works in French cultural history, and taught for years at Princeton and Harvard. He is a chevalier in the Légion d'Honneur, and winner of the National Humanities Medal.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Neuzeit
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780393337471
ISBN-10:	0393337472
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Darnton, Robert
Hersteller:	W. W. Norton & Company
Maße:	216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert Darnton
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.2003
Gewicht:	0,328 kg

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