The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris C.1790-1890 by Tom Stammers

The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris C.1790-1890

Tom Stammers

370 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

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Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century F...

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