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Title: The Great Cat Massacre : And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton ISBN: 0-394-72927-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 February, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A very interesting book!
Comment: I thought this was a great book. Granted I'm a French major, but I think history buffs and other people interested in cultural history would enjoy it as well. Darnton's writing is easy to digest and the subjects of his essays are always interesting. While some essays can be very academic in nature at times, on the whole this book is for everyone, regardless of whether or not they are in academia.
Rating: 4
Summary: Intriguing book
Comment: Darnton's book is a series of essays on the life of the common folk in Enlightenment France. Its topics are superb, ranging from fairy tales to cat massacres. Darnton is thorough in his approach and writes well, keeping his audience entertained.
As a result of the book's essays and the conclusions we make about their participants, we realize that 18th century Frenchmen were vastly different from their contemporary progeny, yet also remarkably human. It's the kind of work that leaves Goosebumps as the author's arguments stack neatly into place, and a formerly incomprehensible event suddenly becomes clear.
The book does have an identity problem. It's caught between academia and pop nonfiction. Some chapters are fascinating-especially the chapter which shares the book's title, "The Great Cat Massacre"-others are tedious in that academic way, citing works, exhausting every possible angle, and so on.
I first read this book in a high school history class, and then recently reread it-over ten years later. In the atmosphere of a class, it was a witty, exciting alternative to standard texts, and thrilled us by revealing how the study of history can give insight into human nature. Outside class, however, I skipped over passages, skimmed conclusions, and failed to give it the same attention I had in class.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most interesting books I ever read
Comment: I read this book many years ago, and still remember it as one of the best, most interesting books I ever read. Based on the premise that all the books that state that the Enlightnment mind (pre French Revolution)was very similar to ours are wrong, this book sets out to prove, through glimpses of each class, (monarchy, peasant, the growing craftsman class, etc.) that there was a huge difference in the way they thought, and through that manner of thought, lived their lives. VERY worth reading.
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Title: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne Tedeschi ISBN: 0801843871 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis ISBN: 0674766911 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton ISBN: 0393314421 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century by Robert Darnton ISBN: 0393057607 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Illustrated History of France by Colin Jones ISBN: 0521669928 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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