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© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter ii
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. List of Illustrations vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Description and Citation 7
  6. 2. The Conversion of the Jews of Minorca (a.d. 417–418) 25
  7. 3. Montaigne, Cannibals, and Grottoes 34
  8. 4. Proofs and Possibilities: Postscript to Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre 54
  9. 5. Paris, 1647: A Dialogue on Fiction and History 72
  10. 6. The Europeans Discover (or Rediscover) the Shamans 83
  11. 7. Tolerance and Commerce: Auerbach Reads Voltaire 96
  12. 8. Anacharsis Interrogates the Natives: A New Reading of an Old Best Seller 115
  13. 9. Following the Tracks of Israël Bertuccio 126
  14. 10. The Bitter Truth: Stendhal’s Challenge to Historians 137
  15. 11. Representing the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols 151
  16. 12. Just One Witness: The Extermination of the Jews and the Principle of Reality 165
  17. 13. Details, Early Plans, Microanalysis: Thoughts on a Book by Siegfried Kracauer 180
  18. 14. Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It 193
  19. 15. Witches and Shamans 215
  20. Notes 229
  21. Index 313
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter ii
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. List of Illustrations vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Description and Citation 7
  6. 2. The Conversion of the Jews of Minorca (a.d. 417–418) 25
  7. 3. Montaigne, Cannibals, and Grottoes 34
  8. 4. Proofs and Possibilities: Postscript to Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre 54
  9. 5. Paris, 1647: A Dialogue on Fiction and History 72
  10. 6. The Europeans Discover (or Rediscover) the Shamans 83
  11. 7. Tolerance and Commerce: Auerbach Reads Voltaire 96
  12. 8. Anacharsis Interrogates the Natives: A New Reading of an Old Best Seller 115
  13. 9. Following the Tracks of Israël Bertuccio 126
  14. 10. The Bitter Truth: Stendhal’s Challenge to Historians 137
  15. 11. Representing the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols 151
  16. 12. Just One Witness: The Extermination of the Jews and the Principle of Reality 165
  17. 13. Details, Early Plans, Microanalysis: Thoughts on a Book by Siegfried Kracauer 180
  18. 14. Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It 193
  19. 15. Witches and Shamans 215
  20. Notes 229
  21. Index 313
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