books by Alain Corbin (cannibales blütenduft pesthauch)

books by Alain Corbin

books:

Village Bells
Alain Corbin

Columbia University Press, 1998

A story of lost sensory experiences and forgotten passions, the latest work from renowned historian Alain Corbin recounts the history of nineteenth-century French rural life through the countryside's numerous bells.

L'Avènement des loisirs
Alain Corbin

Flammarion, 2001

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
Alain Corbin

Harvard University Press, 1996

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 provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.

Le temps, le désir et l'horreur
Alain Corbin

Flammarion, 1998

The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 (Studies in Cultural History)
Alain Corbin

Harvard University Press, 2006

In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was committed in broad daylight that aroused the indignation of the entire country. A young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was savagely tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned him alive. Rumors of cannibalism stirred public fascination, and the details of the case were dramatically recounted in the popular ...

The Lure of the Sea: Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World 1750-1840, The (Penguin History)
Alain Corbin

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995

Once seen as a dark and sinister force, the domain of monsters, the sea was associated with catastrophe and fear by many Europeans prior to the eighteenth century. Alain Corbin's engaging book reveals how attitudes toward the ocean gradually began to shift from the negative to the positive, so that by the mid-1800s our present-day salubrious notion of the seashore had come into being. Going back to ancient times, Corbin describes conceptions of ...

The Life of an Unknown
Alain Corbin

Columbia University Press, 2001

Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived: Louis-François Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century -- the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz -- from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic.

Le village des "cannibales"
Alain Corbin

Flammarion, 1999

Les filles de noce: Misère sexuelle et prostitution : 19e siècle
Corbin Alain

Flammarion, 1997

HISTORIA DEL CRISTIANISMO
CORBIN ALAIN

ARIEL, 2008

Seamos o no creyentes el cristianismo impregna de forma mas o menos evidente nuestra vida cotidiana nuestra cultura y nuestros valores. No se pueden entender sin tener en cuenta su influencia ciertos ritos que han pervivido hasta nuestros dias buena parte de la historia del arte occidental o el paisaje de nuestras ciudades. Disfrutar a fondo de la catedral de Notredame los monumentos de Roma la musica de Bach las obras de los maestros del ...