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Alain Corbin

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in Courtomer, France

January 01, 1936

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History

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Lucien Febvre

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Alain Corbin is a French historian, specialist of the 19th century in France.

Trained in the Annales School, Corbin's work has moved away from the large-scale collective structures studied by Fernand Braudel towards a history of sensibilities which is closer to Lucien Febvre's history of mentalités. His books have explored the histories of such subjects as male desire and prostitution, sensory experience of smell and sound, and the 1870 burning of a young nobleman in a Dordogne village. ...more

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	Historia del silencio: Del Renacimiento a nuestros días by Alain Corbin, J. Bayod Brau (Translator) 3.14 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2016 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination 3.81 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1982 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Histoire du corps. Volume 1 : De la Renaissance aux Lumières by Alain Corbin, Jean-Jeacques Courtine, Georges Vigarello 4.10 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World, 1750-1840 by Alain Corbin, Jocelyn Phelps (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1988 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Histoire du corps. De la Révolution à la Grande Guerre. Volume 2 4.17 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	História do Repouso by Alain Corbin, Sandra Silva (Translator) 3.24 avg rating — 67 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of an Unknown 3.66 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Histoire du corps. Les mutations du regard, le XXe siècle. Volume 3 by Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine (Contributor), Georges Vigarello (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Alain Corbin, Susan Pickford (Translator) 3.33 avg rating — 58 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 3.68 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Histoire du Corps (3 books)
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Alain Corbin,

Jean-Jacques Courtine (Contributor),

Georges Vigarello (Contributor)

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“Baudelaire proclaimed the delight he felt when at last, in the evening, he was alone in the haven of his bedroom. There, he wrote, citing La Bruyère, he escaped ‘the great woe of not being able to be alone’, by contrast with those who lose themselves in the crowd, ‘probably afraid they couldn’t tolerate themselves’.”
― Alain Corbin, A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day

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