The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War
A witty, engaging narrative style....[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing.—New York Times Book Review, front-page review
A witty, engaging narrative style....[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing.—New York Times Book Review, front-page review
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780393059731 (0393059731)
ASIN: 9780393059731
Publish date: 29-10-2007
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Pages no: 454
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
History,
Cultural,
Science,
Geography,
Culture,
Sociology,
France,
Anthropology,
European History
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This is a delightfully eclectic book, with piles and piles of surprising information about just-pre-modern daily life. The way distance shifted between eras and technologies, the way food and work and money functioned or didn't in this vast landscape before the state came along to make sense of them...
This is a very nteresting book, but it is not at all how I imagined it after reading the Barnes & Nobles review. So beware! The facts presented in the book do NOT seem to be collected from the author's extensive bicycling throughout France, but rather reaped from extensive library research. It is pr...
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