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

Prost, Antoine & Gerard Vincent, eds. Arthur Goldhammer, trans

ISBN 10: 067439979X / ISBN 13: 9780674399792

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991

About this Item

Wide 8vo, 630 pp., color plates, b/w illus. Very slight roll to spine at crown, page edges a bit sunned and dustsoiled. Jacket sunned, edgeworn.

Seller Inventory # 18259

Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of Private Life, V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067439979X
• ISBN 13: 9780674399792
• Binding: Boards
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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About this title

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 the Authors

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

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.