Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Life of an UnknownCondition: NewSubtitle: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century FranceISBN-10: 0231118406EAN: 9780231118408ISBN: 9780231118408Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/27/2001Description: "My task is piecing together a puzzle...I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished...I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance...to become part of the memory of his century." With these words, Alain Corbin embarks on a journey that is part history and part metaphysics: recreating 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. Risen from death and utter obscurity is Louis-Francois 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. The result is a fascinating picture of the way people lived along the forest's edge during this tumultuous and eventful time in the history of France-and of the world. How did the residents of this unique community live and work together? How did life in the village differ from life in the forest? How did the church and various governments of France affect the everyday lives of these people, and of Pinagot in particular?With The Life of an Unknown, Alain Corbin presents a full record of a life, comprised of supposition, with room for each reader to insert his/her own imaginings onto the scene. Ambitious in its aims and exquisite in its execution, The Life of an Unknown is nothing short of a bold and successful attempt by a master to correct historians' all-too-common neglect of those relegated to oblivion with the passage of time.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Alain CorbinGenre: BiographyTopic: HistoryBook Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural CriticismRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Life of an Unknown
Title: The Life of an Unknown
Subtitle: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century Fran
ISBN-10: 0231118406
EAN: 9780231118408
ISBN: 9780231118408
Release Date: 06/27/2001
Release Year: 2001
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Biography
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Life of an Unknown : the Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2001
Subject: Historiography, Cultural Heritage, Europe / France, Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades, Europe / General, Sociology / Rural
Item Weight: 20.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Alain Corbin
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Series: European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Item Width: 0.7 in
Format: Hardcover
