Awards

• Commended for Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies 1993 (United States)

Overview

Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on the period after 1800. How and why did people understand texts as they did in modern France? In answering this question, James Allen moves easily from one interpretive framework to anothe

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Author:   James Smith Allen
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   1218
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780691633367

ISBN 10:   0691633363
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

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Finalist for the 1993 Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historical Studies

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