...a rich, highly original, and innovative piece of work which curiously achieves a new way of understanding and analyzing trends in European history... Passerini has produced a book which will be of interest to a wide range of historians interested in culture, literature, society, and gender as well as in the history of emotions.Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire
The stories as told by the author] are extremely interesting and illuminating, covering a quite extraordinary range of material (the scholarly work here alone is quite outstanding) from...
...a rich, highly original, and innovative piece of work which curiously achieves a new way of understanding and analyzing trends in European histo...
