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A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times v. 5 (History of Private Life)
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #459442 in Books
- Published on: 1994-09-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 656 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
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"
