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Roger Chartier Author & Editor

Roger Chartier is directeur of the Center Alexandre Koyre at the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

A History of Private Life cover

A History of Private Life

4 contributors - Paperback

£45.95

The Sociologist and the Historian cover

The Sociologist and the Historian

2 authors - Paperback

£12.99

The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France cover

The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France

Roger Chartier - Hardback

£159.00

Inscription and Erasure cover

Inscription and Erasure

Roger Chartier - Paperback

£22.99

The Sociologist and the Historian cover

The Sociologist and the Historian

2 authors - Hardback

£40.00

The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France cover

The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France

Roger Chartier - Paperback

£60.00

Won in Translation cover

Won in Translation

Roger Chartier - Hardback

£46.00

The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind cover

The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind

Roger Chartier - Hardback

£55.00

A History of Reading in the West cover

A History of Reading in the West

2 contributors - Hardback

£60.00

Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare cover

Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare

Roger Chartier - Hardback

£55.00

Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare cover

Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare

Roger Chartier - Paperback

£17.99