The Great Cat Massacre

Name: The Great Cat Massacre
Author: Robert Darnton

by Robert Darnton

Essays on French popular culture, rural riots, and social history

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Robert Darnton

Darnton pioneered the social history of ideas and publishing, showing how books circulated in 18th-century France to illuminate the cultural roots of the Revolution. The Great Cat Massacre is his most read work.

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