Sweet Homes and Tolerant Houses
Linda Colley, 16 August 1990
A History of Private Life. Vol IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
edited by Michelle Perrot, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Harvard, 713 pp., £29.95, April 1990,0 674 39978 1 Show More
edited by Michelle Perrot, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Harvard, 713 pp., £29.95, April 1990,
Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
by Alain Corbin, translated by Alan Sheridan.
Harvard, 478 pp., £31.50, April 1990,0 674 95543 9 Show More
by Alain Corbin, translated by Alan Sheridan.
Harvard, 478 pp., £31.50, April 1990,
“... lived between the wars. What could private life mean to her and millions like her?To their credit, Michelle Perrot and her contributors are sensitive to the diversity of human experience in this respect. The strategy they have adopted to cope with the vast miscellany of information before them is, however, unfortunate. Already, in the preceding volume in ... ”
