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THE ALLURE OF THE ARCHIVES
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| By: |
Arlette Farge, Thomas Scott-Railton (Trans), Natalie Zemon Davis (Foreword) |
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Hardback |
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300176732 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300176735 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 September, 2013 |
| Series: |
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History |
| Pages: |
152 |
| Description: |
An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. |
| Synopsis: |
An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily 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 The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past. Originally published in 1989, Farge's classic work communicates the tactile, interpretive, and emotional experience of archival research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old Regime in France.At once a practical guide to research methodology and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to the archive's allure can forever change how we understand the past. |
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US |
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Yale University Press |
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