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Women for Hire
Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
Av Alain Corbin
Häftad, 1996
522 kr
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Dispelling the lurid stereotypes portrayed in fiction, Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it …
History of Virility
Av Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
359 kr
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How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male domination and privilege and examining how it persisted, with significant alterations, for centuries. While …
History of Silence
From the Renaissance to the Present Day
Av Alain Corbin
Häftad, 2018
156 kr
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Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of …
History of Silence
From the Renaissance to the Present Day
Av Alain Corbin
Inbunden, 2018
505 kr
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Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of …
Terra Incognita
A History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Av Alain Corbin
Häftad, 2021
266 kr
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Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself.Here Alain Corbin focuses on our …
Fragility
A History of Plaster
Av Alain Corbin
Häftad, 2025
107 kr
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful …
Village Bells
The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside
Av Alain Corbin
Inbunden, 1998
1741 kr
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In the French canton of Brienne in November 1799, local authorities were scandalized when a crowd of girls broke through the doors of the church and rang the bells in order to mark the festival of St. Catherine. Religious use of the bells was forbidden by law, but the villagers boldly insisted on …
Life of an Unknown
The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Alain Corbin
Inbunden, 2001
1143 kr
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"My task is piecing together a puzzle...I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished...I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance...to become part of the memory of his century." With these words, Alain Corbin embarks on a journey that is part history …
History of Virility
Av Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1416 kr
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How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male domination and privilege and examining how it persisted, with significant alterations, for centuries. While …
Time, Desire and Horror
Towards a History of the Senses
Av Alain Corbin
Inbunden, 1995
742 kr
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In this book Alain Corbin argues that the 1860s were a crucial period for western civilization, characterized by radical changes in the way Europeans viewed themselves and their world. Corbin examines urban development, the new mobility of the population, prostitution and policing, personal hygiene …
History of Silence
From the Renaissance to the Present Day
Av Alain Corbin
E-bok, 2018
244 kr
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Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of …
Terra Incognita
A History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Av Alain Corbin
Inbunden, 2021
770 kr
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Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself.Here Alain Corbin focuses on our …
Terra Incognita
A History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Av Alain Corbin
E-bok, 2021
302 kr
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Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself. Here Alain Corbin focuses on our …
History of the Wind
Av Alain Corbin
Inbunden, 2022
117 kr
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Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart …
History of the Wind
Av Alain Corbin
E-bok, 2022
212 kr
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Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart …
History of Rest
Av Alain Corbin
Inbunden, 2024
505 kr
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Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest have blossomed, ranging from heavenly repose …
History of Rest
Av Alain Corbin
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest have blossomed, ranging from heavenly repose …
History of Rest
Av Alain Corbin
E-bok, 2024
218 kr
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Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest have blossomed, ranging from heavenly repose …
Fragility
A History of Plaster
Av Alain Corbin
Inbunden, 2025
455 kr
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful …
Fragility
A History of Plaster
Av Alain Corbin
E-bok, 2025
165 kr
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful …
Himmelsbesen und Höllentäler
Eine Kulturgeschichte des Windes
Av Alain Corbin
E-bok, 2023
186 kr
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Alain Corbin, der große Historiker der Sinneswahrnehmungen, schreibt mit dieser Kulturgeschichte des Windes seine Gedanken zur Herausbildung moderner Wetterfühligkeit fort. In einem elegant geschriebenen Text verarbeitet er zahlreiche Zeugnisse von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, wobei es ihm um …
La Douceur de l'Ombre: l'Arbre, Source d'Émotions, de l'Antiquité À Nos Jours
Av Alain Corbin
Häftad
997 kr
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Historia de la alegría
Un viaje al interior de nuestra intimidad
Av Alain Corbin
E-bok, 2026
128 kr
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Dejando de lado las pasiones multitudinarias, Alain Corbin esboza, con un estilo asequible, rico en referencias y detalles, la historia de la emoción más huidiza: «la alegría íntima experimentada en lo más profundo del ser».Como ya hiciera con Historia del silencio, en este ensayo breve, …
