Alain Corbin

22 books

The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin

The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination

Alain Corbin

307 pages • 1982

nonfiction history sociology informative medium-paced
A History of Private Life, Volume IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War by Philippe Ariès, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot

A History of Private Life, Volume IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War

A History of Private Life #4

Philippe Ariès, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot

744 pages • paperback • 1987

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day by Alain Corbin

A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day

Alain Corbin

160 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
Les Filles de Noce : Misère sexuelle et prostitution au XIXe siècle by Alain Corbin

Les Filles de Noce : Misère sexuelle et prostitution au XIXe siècle

Alain Corbin

496 pages • 1978

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France by Alain Corbin

The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France

Alain Corbin

272 pages • 1998

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside by Alain Corbin

Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside

Alain Corbin

416 pages • 1994

nonfiction history music informative medium-paced
The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 by Alain Corbin

The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870

Alain Corbin

172 pages • 1990

nonfiction history true crime dark reflective slow-paced
Abécédaire de la prostitution au XIXe siècle : Splendeurs et misères by Isolde Pludermacher, Alain Corbin, Claire Dupin de Beyssat

Abécédaire de la prostitution au XIXe siècle : Splendeurs et misères

Isolde Pludermacher, Alain Corbin, Claire Dupin de Beyssat

207 pages • paperback • 2015

medium-paced
Bloedbad in de Dordogne by Henk van der Waal, Alain Corbin
Bloedbad in de Dordogne
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Henk van der Waal, Alain Corbin

Bloedbad in de Dordogne

Henk van der Waal, Alain Corbin

missing page info • 1990

dark informative reflective slow-paced
1515 Et Les Grandes Dates de L'Histoire de France . Revisit'es Par Les Grands Historiens D'Aujourd'hui by Alain Corbin
1515 Et Les Grandes Dates de L'Histoire de France . Revisit'es Par Les Grands Historiens D'Aujourd'hui
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Alain Corbin

1515 Et Les Grandes Dates de L'Histoire de France . Revisit'es Par Les Grands Historiens D'Aujourd'hui

Alain Corbin

541 pages • paperback

fiction medium-paced