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Shiny acquisitions!
May. 21st, 2008 09:05 pmWent to Second Story on Sunday to kill time on a rainy afternoon. Had no intention of actually spending money, and left some interesting things on the shelf. Because I ended up spending $31 as it was.
General dorkiness:
Dirty Linen and New Found Land - two Stoppard one-acts from the 70s. Every time I see a Stoppard, I buy it. Which has led to an extra copy of Travesties because I thought I didn't have one, but I just didn't have one with that cover.
A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev. Again, this is Stoppard's fault.
Adam Bede - George Eliot, because I love her work and this was a copy in good shape for really cheap
The Plays of Christopher Marlowe - possibly from as early as 1914, at least that's the latest reprint date on the copyright page and it's too early to have an ISBN, but it's in remarkably good condition if it really is that old. Everyman Library edition, hardcover, size of a trade paperback.
The Embarrassment of Riches - Simon Schama. 17th c. Dutch culture. Total awesomeness (was recommended ages ago by one of my profs - Georgi the Russian Spy - and I have finally acquired a copy I can afford).
And the LM research dorkiness:
Class, Politics, and Early Industrial Capitalism: A Study of Mid-Nineteenth Century Toulouse, France - Ronald Aminzade. Aminzade thanks Charles Tilly as his major inspiration, so I'm already in love. It's generally July Monarchy through Second Empire, but obviously talks about what came before and includes info from the 1830 census.
Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working-Class Family, 1825-1848 - Katherine A. Lynch. How does one not pull a book with this title off the shelf? The spine didn't have the dates so I had no hope, but then how does one not buy a book that actually covers the relevant period?
The Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century - John M. Merriman. Also a Charles Tilly fanboy. It starts with the Restoration and goes through the strikes of 1905. The first two chapters are likely most useful for info on life outside of Paris (Life in a Restoration Town and The Bourgeois Revolution of 1830 and the Workers), but the whole thing looks shiny. Especially since Limoges was "la ville rouge" throughout the 19th century, at the forefront of every social upheaval.
France under the Bourbon Restoration, 1814-1830 - Frederick B. Artz. The shiniest thing I have *ever* seen. Five sections: Beginnings of a Modern Parliamentary Government in France, The Clerical Question, The Rise of a New Economic Order, The State of Society, and The Romantic Revolt. Admittedly, it's from 1931, reissued in 1963, so historians may look on the interpretation differently, but this period, in a reasonably readable format, yes please.
So when you consider the hefty scholarly works, $31 is extremely cheap.
General dorkiness:
Dirty Linen and New Found Land - two Stoppard one-acts from the 70s. Every time I see a Stoppard, I buy it. Which has led to an extra copy of Travesties because I thought I didn't have one, but I just didn't have one with that cover.
A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev. Again, this is Stoppard's fault.
Adam Bede - George Eliot, because I love her work and this was a copy in good shape for really cheap
The Plays of Christopher Marlowe - possibly from as early as 1914, at least that's the latest reprint date on the copyright page and it's too early to have an ISBN, but it's in remarkably good condition if it really is that old. Everyman Library edition, hardcover, size of a trade paperback.
The Embarrassment of Riches - Simon Schama. 17th c. Dutch culture. Total awesomeness (was recommended ages ago by one of my profs - Georgi the Russian Spy - and I have finally acquired a copy I can afford).
And the LM research dorkiness:
Class, Politics, and Early Industrial Capitalism: A Study of Mid-Nineteenth Century Toulouse, France - Ronald Aminzade. Aminzade thanks Charles Tilly as his major inspiration, so I'm already in love. It's generally July Monarchy through Second Empire, but obviously talks about what came before and includes info from the 1830 census.
Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working-Class Family, 1825-1848 - Katherine A. Lynch. How does one not pull a book with this title off the shelf? The spine didn't have the dates so I had no hope, but then how does one not buy a book that actually covers the relevant period?
The Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century - John M. Merriman. Also a Charles Tilly fanboy. It starts with the Restoration and goes through the strikes of 1905. The first two chapters are likely most useful for info on life outside of Paris (Life in a Restoration Town and The Bourgeois Revolution of 1830 and the Workers), but the whole thing looks shiny. Especially since Limoges was "la ville rouge" throughout the 19th century, at the forefront of every social upheaval.
France under the Bourbon Restoration, 1814-1830 - Frederick B. Artz. The shiniest thing I have *ever* seen. Five sections: Beginnings of a Modern Parliamentary Government in France, The Clerical Question, The Rise of a New Economic Order, The State of Society, and The Romantic Revolt. Admittedly, it's from 1931, reissued in 1963, so historians may look on the interpretation differently, but this period, in a reasonably readable format, yes please.
So when you consider the hefty scholarly works, $31 is extremely cheap.