Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations -- or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price o
As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the seventeenth centur
Eight essays explore key aspects of the lives and values of sixteenth-century French peasant, artisan, poor, and tradesmen as they reflect the competing claims of tradition and innovation. Bibliogs
To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide?unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excusable?a supplicant had to tell the king a story. These
A survey of slaves on film analyzes five films Spartacus, Burn!, The Last Supper, Amistad, and Beloved to construct a social and cinematic history of bondage.
"[A] fascinating tale of a man forced . . . to live between incompatible worlds. Highly recommended." --Library JournalAl-Hasan al-Wazzan—born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 w
These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of th
An 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.
Arlette Farge’s Le Gout de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge w
Popular portrayals have long depicted the American frontier of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a "Wild West" marked by violence. This compelling volume by Marilynn Johnson explore
