The Allure of the Archives by Thomas Scott-Railton, Arlette Farge, Natalie Zemon Davis

152 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

Description

Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portr...

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Moods

informative 88%
reflective 77%
challenging 22%
inspiring 22%
relaxing 22%
emotional 11%
hopeful 11%

Pace

medium 50%
slow 37%
fast 12%

Average rating

3.85

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