Distorting mirrors: Visions of the crowd in late nineteenth-century France (Yale historical publications) - Hardcover

Barrows, Susanna

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Synopsis

Susanna Barrows argues that French men of letters, threatened by the resurgence of strikes, riots, and demonstrations in the 1880s and 1890s, channeled much of their uneasiness into a purportedlly objective study of crowds.

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