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"Through little details, travellers' notes, a society stands revealed. The ways people eat, dress, or lodge, at the different levels of that society, are never a matter of indifference. And these snapshots can also point out contrasts and disparities between one society and another which are not all superficial. It is fascinating, and I do not think pointless to try and reassemble these imageries." agreeed.
— Feb 11, 2026 02:07PM
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Max Stottrop
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After making it through the wonderful and evocative preface & introduction in my last session and thoroughly enjoying carnival in Cologne afterwards, I was now ready to delve into the first chapter: "Weight of Numbers". What a way to start this book, but made easier by having frequent sub-chapter breaks to give it breathing room. (con’d)
— 11 hours, 57 min ago
"In any case, the co-existence of the upper and lower levels forces upon the historian an illuminating dialectic. How can one understand the towns without understanding the countryside, money without barter, the varieties of poverty without the varieties of luxury, the white bread of the rich without the black
bread of the poor?"