Mysteries and Conspiracies. Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies, Paperback/Luc Boltanski

* A pathbreaking new book by one of the world s leading sociologists * The book is a study of the rise of detective novels and spy novels in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Boltanski shows that these genres tell us something important about the nature of modern societies and the modern state. Publisher: Polity Press Author(s): Luc Boltanski Number of pages: 320 Publication date: 2014 Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27 Cover type: Paperback / softback