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The Allure of the Archives

By Thomas , Davis , Natalie Zemon;Farge , Arlette;Scott-Railton

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN
9780300176735, 9780300180213, 0300180217
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
206 kB (210524 bytes)
Series
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Archives

Description

Arlette Farge's 'Le Goût de l'archive' is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combining through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinary intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In this book, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into previously unknown dimensions of the past.

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