An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized.

This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people – peasants, fishermen, textile workers – in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collec

The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of op

"Kari Weil's new book takes readers back to an era when horses were an inescapable part of daily life and when horse ownership became an increasingly realizable

Using an interdiciplinary approach, this book brings together work in the fields of history, literary studies, music, and architecture to examine the place of f