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George Washington s False Teeth An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century 1st Edition by Robert Darnton ISBN 0393057607 9780393057607

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Author(s): Robert Darnton
ISBN(s): 9780393057607, 0393057607
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.23 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0393057607 
ISBN 13: 9780393057607
Author: Robert Darnton

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.

George Washington s False Teeth An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century 1st Table of contents:

  1. The Case for the Enlightenment: George Washington’s False Teeth

  2. The News in Paris: An Early Information Society

  3. The Unity of Europe: Culture and Politeness

  4. The Pursuit of Happiness: Voltaire and Jefferson

  5. The Great Divide: Rousseau on the Route to Vincennes

  6. The Craze for America: Condorcet and Brissot

  7. The Pursuit of Profit: Rousseauism on the Bourse

  8. The Skeletons in the Closet: How Historians Play God

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