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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140137194 |
| ISBN 10 | 014013719X |
| Title | The Great Cat Massacre |
| Author | Robert Darnton |
| Series | Penguin History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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