History of Private Life, Volume V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067439979X ISBN 13: 9780674399792

Publisher: Belknap Press, 1991

Synopsis

The final volume in the award-winning series charts the remarkable inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the present day, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics, and nationality. "A fascinating glimpse into the distant and exotic past."--Los Angeles Times. 230 halftones, 2 tables.

About this title

About the Author:

Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France.

Review:

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)

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)

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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 067439979X
• ISBN 13: 9780674399792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Prost Antoine, Vincent Gerard