I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
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Robert Darnton Quote
“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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