I studied it as part of my History degree:

Twice in fact: once in the second year as part of a course on European Intellectual History (where it came up as part of the fin-de-siecle cultural anxieties in France) and in a Third Year on France 1850-1900 and the Boulanger crisis.

Have you read Elias Canetti's 'Crowds and Power'?

Posted By: Ottosson Foxtrot on November 19th 2007 at 16:03:44

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FAO Steve In Holland (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Nov 19, 15:56:56
- No you haven't, you can't read (General Chat) - pants, Nov 19, 16:07:21
  - You see that Matt Monro? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Nov 19, 16:08:30
    - Have you been watching Rob Newman's History Of The World Backwards? (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 19, 16:15:24
      - i have the same problem with Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 19, 16:19:00
        
        you can see all Screenwipes on you tube...basically here's the general way... (General Chat) - Brandonio, Nov 19, 16:29:32
        
        ah, sooperb (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 19, 16:44:12
        
        Brooker was on BBC2 last week.. (n/m) (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Nov 19, 16:25:39
        
        if it's on after Newsnight then it's no good to me either (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 19, 16:29:12
        
        The solution is Sky+, but I hent got that. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 19, 16:21:25
        
        me neither, might need to look at that BBCi player i suppose (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 19, 16:23:40
      - seen one of them and haven't seen others for the same reasons as you (General Chat) - pants, Nov 19, 16:18:16
    - I am aware of him (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 19, 16:11:37
- I'd *love* the crude 19th-century eugenics aspects. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 19, 15:59:43
  - Yeah, he makes several exceptions for "savages" etc (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 16:01:12
- Indeed. I thought the same. I'm told it is still on the reading list in many (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 15:58:57
  - I studied it as part of my History degree: (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Nov 19, 16:03:44
    - No. Worth a read ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 16:04:18
      - Not read it - I was asking you ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Nov 19, 16:06:16
        
        Good. I shall read it and come back a better troll ;-) (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 19, 16:08:30

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