A Hundred Years Ago

This is an unusual book in severaI respects. It is the product of a partnership between two types of specialist: a social historian whose portrait of the 1880s can draw upon the wealth of detailed historical studies published in recent years, and a photographic historian who can make available a type of visual evidence not so far fully exploited by historians. The 1880s is the first decade when there begin to be enough photographs to illuminate a wide range of human experience, and the... Voir plus