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pp. 361, “Because of Geneva’s uniquely rich and well-organised sources, this is the first study to provide reliable evidence on suicide rates for pre-modern Europe. Watt places his findings within a wide range of historical and sociological scholarship, and while suicide was rare through the seventeenth century, he shows that Geneva experienced an explosion in self-inflicted deaths after 1750. Quite simply, modern Geneva witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide both in attitudes towards it — thorough secularised, medicalised, and stripped of diabolical undertones — and the frequency of it.”previous owners bookplate on verso of front cover
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| ISBN | 0943549876 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780943549873 | |
| Number of pages | 361 | |
| Original Title | Choosing Death: Suicide & Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva: 58 (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies) | |
| Published Date | 2001 | |
| Book Condition | Good | |
| Jacket Condition | No Dustjacket | |
| Binding | Paperback | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | Kirksville | |
| Edition | First edition | |
| Category: | History | |
| Author: | Jeffrey R. Watt | |
| Publisher: | Truman State University Press |
pp. 361, “Because of Geneva’s uniquely rich and well-organised sources, this is the first study to provide reliable evidence on suicide rates for pre-modern Europe. Watt places his findings within a wide range of historical and sociological scholarship, and while suicide was rare through the seventeenth century, he shows that Geneva experienced an explosion in self-inflicted deaths after 1750. Quite simply, modern Geneva witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide both in attitudes towards it — thorough secularised, medicalised, and stripped of diabolical undertones — and the frequency of it.”previous owners bookplate on verso of front cover
| Weight | 1 kg |
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