The Great Cat Massacre
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When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their...
Published By Basic Books
Format Paperback
Category
Number Of Pages 320
Publication Date 05/12/2009
ISBN 9780465012749
Dimensions 5.5 inches x 8.25 inches
"Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist."—New Republic
"Brilliant....The job description for the historian is simple; he must read well. Darnton does. He will read anything, take it seriously, and, applying a fertile imagination, write beautifully about what he has learned."—Washington Post Book World
"An exercise in culture shock."—Chronicle of Higher Education