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Product details
- ISBN 9780745611310
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 200 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 1995
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book Alain Corbin argues that the 1860s were a crucial period for western civilization, characterized by radical changes in the way Europeans viewed themselves and their world. Corbin examines urban development, the new mobility of the population, prostitution and policing, personal hygiene and the social plagues of alcoholism, tuberculosis and venereal disease.
Alan Corbin is Professor of Modern History at the University of Paris I, Sorbonne.
