The World of the Paris Café: Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 114) - Softcover

Haine, W. Scott

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In The World of the Paris Café, W. Scott Haine investigates what the working-class café reveals about the formation of urban life in nineteenth-century France. Café society was not the product of a small elite of intellectuals and artists, he argues, but was instead the creation of a diverse and changing working population. Making unprecedented use of primary sources―from marriage contracts to police and bankruptcy records―Haine investigates the café in relation to work, family life, leisure, gender roles, and political activity. This rich and provocative study offers a bold reinterpretation of the social history of the working men and women of Paris.

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About the Author

W. Scott Haine is a member of the faculty at Holy Names College in California and is the editor of the Social History of Alcohol Review.

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In The World of the Paris Cafe, W. Scott Haine investigates what the working-class cafe reveals about the formation of urban life in nineteenth-century France. Cafe society was not the product of a small elite of intellectuals and artists, he argues, but was instead the creation of a diverse and changing working population. Making unprecedented use of primary sources - from marriage contracts to police and bankruptcy records - Haine investigates the cafe in relation to work, family life, leisure, gender roles, and political activity. This rich and provocative study offers a bold reinterpretation of the social history of the working men and women of Paris.

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9780801851049: The World of the Paris Café: Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

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ISBN 10:  0801851041 ISBN 13:  9780801851049
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
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