In Paris in the late 1730s an extraordinary event occurred. Two printing-shop apprentices rounded up the neighbourhood cats, including their mistress's favourite pet, and battered them to death. They then staged a mock trial and strung them from gallows, to riotous applause and much hilarity - something we find incomprehensible today. Was this a bizarre carnivalesque ritual? An act to ward off witchcraft? Or a workers' revolt against their tyrannical master? To try to enter the minds of ordinary people in 18th-century ...
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In Paris in the late 1730s an extraordinary event occurred. Two printing-shop apprentices rounded up the neighbourhood cats, including their mistress's favourite pet, and battered them to death. They then staged a mock trial and strung them from gallows, to riotous applause and much hilarity - something we find incomprehensible today. Was this a bizarre carnivalesque ritual? An act to ward off witchcraft? Or a workers' revolt against their tyrannical master? To try to enter the minds of ordinary people in 18th-century France and discover "the mental world of the unenlightened during the Enlightenment", Robert Darnton's engrossing, unusual history analyzes a rich variety of material, including the grim, earthy peasant sources of folk tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood"; a curious description of a city; and a policeman's secret dossier. His innovative ethnographic study shows us not just what people thought in the past, but how differently they viewed the world from us.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0465027008. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear scratching and edge wear. Inside pages are clean.; 320 pages.
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Very good(+) in very good jacket. Illustrated. xiii + 298pp. 8vo, cloth. N.Y. : Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, (1984). A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? -9? " tall; Basic Books, Inc. 1984. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. xiii+298 pages. 9.25x6.25x1". Seventeen b/w illustrations. Bright and clean blue, white and red illustrated cover is quite clean and unmarked, light wear around all edges. Sewn binding tight, solid and square. Pages completely clean and free from any marks. Delightful book--17th-18th century France--history, culture, literature, people. Includes: Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose; Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin; A Bourgeois Puts His World in Order; A Police Inspector Sorts His Files: The Anatomy of the Republic of Letters; Philosophers Trim the Tree of Knowledge; Readers Respond th Rousseau: The Fabrication of Romantic Sensitivity. Conclusion, Notes, and Index. 1984, Basic Books, Inc. ISBN10: 0465027008, ISBN13: 9780465027002.
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Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0465027008. Spine extremities very lightly bumped. Boards warped outward very slightly at fore-edges. Blind stamp on half-title page and rear flyleaf. Else pages are clean. Just a bit of rubbing to DJ spine extremities. Light bumping to DJ top corners. 1/2" closed tear in rear top corner of DJ. Else DJ clean, bright.; WHH15A; 298 pages.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 1984 hc 1st ed 1st printing w full # line. A hint of edgewear on dj, sunning on cover, soil on edge, else text clean, binding tight.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($17.95 price intact). Published by Basic Books, 1984. Octavo. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear and nicks. 298 pages. ISBN: 0465027008. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
