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    A History of Rest

    Alain Corbin

    Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by…

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    Alain Corbin

    The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time - the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing…

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    Alain Corbin

    The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time - the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing…

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    Alain Corbin

    Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by…

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    Time, Desire and Horror: Towards a History of the Senses

    Alain Corbin

    This study argues that the 1860s were a crucial period for Western civilization, characterized by radical changes in the way Europeans viewed themselves and their world. Focusing on France, the…

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    The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-century France

    Alain Corbin

    Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which…

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    A History of Silence - From the Renaissance to the Present Day

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    Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It characterises our most intimate spaces and inspires writers who have long sought solitude in mountains and forests. Today, when noise is…

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    A History of Silence - From the Renaissance to the Present Day

    A Corbin

    Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It characterises our most intimate spaces and inspires writers who have long sought solitude in mountains and forests. Today, when noise is…

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    Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the 18t h and 19th Centuries

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    A leading historian opens up a new terrain for understanding the past: the history of ignorance –

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    Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries

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    A leading historian opens up a new terrain for understanding the past: the history of ignorance –

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    A History of the Wind

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    Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity humans…

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    Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside

    Alain Corbin

    A story of lost sensory experiences and forgotten passions, the latest work from renowned historian Alain Corbin recounts the history of nineteenth-century French rural life through the countryside’s numerous bells.

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    Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

    Alain Corbin

    Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the…

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    The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870

    Alain Corbin

    In August 1870 in the French village of Hautefaye, a young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned…

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    A History of Virility

    These original essays follow the socio-historical evolution of virility, as opposed to masculinity, to unsettle popular accounts of politics and culture. A major contribution to the nascent field of masculinity…

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    A History of Virility

    These original essays follow the socio-historical evolution of virility, as opposed to masculinity, to unsettle popular accounts of politics and culture. A major contribution to the nascent field of masculinity…

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    L'Invention Du Xixe Siecle: Le Xixe Siecle Par Lui-Meme (Litterature, Histoire, Societe): [colloque International, Paris, Musee d'Orsay, La Sorbonne, 11-13 Decembre 1997]

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