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The Allure of the Archives

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Allure of the Archives

By Arlette Farge

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About the book

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 Fr...Show more

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9780300198935

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

The Allure of the Archives

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Paperback

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