An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized.

This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people – peasants, fishermen, textile workers – in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collec

The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of op

"From Publishers Weekly : This irresistible history of the French Revolution is much more than a colorful mosaic. By splicing a reflective narrative with graphi

This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available t