{"product_id":"the-great-cat-massacre-book-by-robert-darnton","title":"The Great Cat Massacre\nBook by Robert Darnton","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy in the eighteenth-century version of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLittle Red Riding Hood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e did the wolf eat the child at the end?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Great Cat Massacre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during what we like to call “The Age of Enlightenment.” A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productInfoTabExpanderHeader0\" class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003ca role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead less\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55948263850275,"sku":null,"price":350.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55948263883043,"sku":null,"price":480.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55948263915811,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/81-KWCYV2VL._AC_UF350_350_QL50.jpg?v=1793773141","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/the-great-cat-massacre-book-by-robert-darnton","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}