The Allure of the Archives

by Arlette Farge

Book Overview

Arlette Farge's Le Go t 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300198930
• ISBN13: 9780300198935
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.1" x 8.0"