George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

Darnton, Robert

ISBN 10: 0393057607 / ISBN 13: 9780393057607

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003

About this Item

[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] First Printing. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Contains Philip Morgan's personal notes. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393057607
• ISBN 13: 9780393057607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 13 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History and Politics

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Synopsis

Arising out of a project intended to examine Thomas Jefferson's excursions in Paris, this text explores "out-of-the-way corners" of the 18th century focusing on the interrelated themes of "French-American connections, life in the Republic of Letters, modes of communication, and ways of thought peculiar to the French Enlightenment." Darnton (European history, Princeton U.) obliquely refers in his title to the almost ubiquitous prevalence of toothaches at the time, reflecting his belief that by focusing on the ways the period differed from ours, we can come to a greater understanding of its actualities. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author

Robert Darnton is the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History at Princeton University. His many books include The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.