A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times v. 5 (History of Private Life)

by Georges Duby (Author), PhilippeAries (Author)

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Paperback
1994
$59.67

This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics and nationality.

Synopsis

This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics and nationality.

$59.67

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 656
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 06 Sep 1994
ISBN 10: 0674400046
ISBN 13: 9780674400047

Media Reviews

A History of Private Life has been an immense undertaking...The series has deservedly attracted huge praise from historians of all hues for its scholarly imagination and beautiful presentation. It is thus an unusually strong recommendation to say that the final volume is worthy of its predecessors.--Andrew Freeman Financial Times
The text is leavened with an abundant display of imagery...The entire series amounts to a vast treasury of human thought and experience, a sourcebook of ideas and images. At times lyrical, then analytical, but always provocative...A tool for the analyst and the novelist as much as the historian and anthropologist.--Jonathan Kirsch Los Angeles Times
The wealth of materials is impressive, and Arthur Goldhammer's skillful translation captures the contributors' voices...Lavishly illustrated with well-captioned reproductions.--Joseph Coates Chicago Tribune
There's something wonderfully audacious about the very concept of 'History of Private Life, ' a five-volume study that seeks to reveal the most intimate details of everyday life over three millennia of Western European history. Here is one scholarly work in which the bathroom and the bordello figure as importantly as the storming of the Bastille or the defeat of Napoleon ... A fascinating glimpse into the distant and exotic past.--Jonathan Kirsch Los Amgeles Times