The Kiss of Lamourette

Download or read book The Kiss of Lamourette written by Robert Darnton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about history, the media, and the history of the media.In four parts this book will go through how the past operates as an undercurrent in the present, analyze the operation of the media by specific case studies, outline a particular discipline; the history of the book, which provides a historical dimension to media studies, and lastly, to move outward from those considerations to a broad discussion of history itself and of history's neighbors within the human sciences.