{"product_id":"the-allure-of-the-archives-9780300198935","title":"The Allure of the Archives","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Arlette Farge's \u003ci\u003eLe Goût de l'archive\u003c\/i\u003e 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 portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In \u003ci\u003eThe Allure of the Archives\u003c\/i\u003e, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Originally published in 1989, Farge's classic work communicates the tactile, interpretive, and emotional experience of archival research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old Regime in France. At once a practical guide to research methodology and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to the archive's allure can forever change how we understand the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArlette Farge\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of Research in Modern History at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. \u003cb\u003eNatalie Zemon Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. \u003cb\u003eThomas Scott-Railton\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of several books, including works by Étienne Balibar, Michel Foucault, and Slavoj Zizek.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630306660626,"sku":"9780300198935","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e23bc3c-573d-422a-8556-780ac994b5a6.jpg?v=1732749263","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-allure-of-the-archives-9780300198935","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}