The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural historyExamines the history and culture of eighteenth-century France as it provides a view of the people of the cities, towns, and countryside during the Age of Enlightenment |
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User Review - baswood - LibraryThing“We constantly need to be shaken out of a false sense of familiarity with the past, to be administered doses of cultural shock.” Darnton says that to really appreciate documents and literature from ... Read full review
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User Review - kant1066 - LibraryThingMost history of the early modern period written more than a generation ago was what Robert Darnton identifies as "top-down" history: it is the history of royalty, nobles, and the intellectual elites ... Read full review
Contents
The Meaning of Mother Goose | 9 |
The Great Cat Massacre of | 75 |
The City | 107 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history |
| Author | Robert Darnton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 19, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0465027008, 9780465027002 |
| Length | 298 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / France History / General History / World |
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