The great cat massacre
First published 1984 · 304 pages · about 5 hours to read
About this book
In this series of essays, Robert Darnton exhumes the strange and wonderful world views of the ordinary and extraordinary people inhabiting the cities, towns and countryside of France in what we like to call the age of enlightenment.
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Josh80/100
Fine but not for me. I bought this book because I thought it would be a collection of weird stories about weird French people doing weird stuff. The title suggests this. Instead it turned out to be a serious academic book. A lot of the book is dedicated to questions of historical methodology. Darnton argues for adapting the techniques and intellectual methods of Cultural Anthropology to the study…
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