The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton

The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton

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Believing that historians should adopt anthropological methods in order to understand "the otherness" of previous eras, Robert Darnton analyzes a variety of sources, from peasant folklore to Enlightenment philosophy, in order to show not merely what men and women thought, but why they thought it.

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The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton

Believing that historians should adopt anthropological methods in order to understand "the otherness" of previous eras, Robert Darnton analyzes a variety of sources, from grim peasant folklore to Enlightenment philosophy, in order to show not merely what men and women thought, but why they thought it. The result is an evocation of a country where young printers could riotously massacre cats, where a royal inspector of police could labour over intimate, up-to-date files on writers and where the gaudy panoply of a city could symbolize so clearly the infrastructure of a society ridden with nuance and contradiction.
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ISBN 13 9780140137194
ISBN 10 014013719X
Titel The Great Cat Massacre
Autor Robert Darnton
Serie Penguin History
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 1992-03-26
Seitenanzahl 304
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