The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation

ISBN-13: 9780198207771 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 280 str.

Carol Harrison

Opis

This book analyzes the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Carol E. Harrison addresses the construction of class and gender identities, and shows how the sociable interaction of male citizens was the crucial bridge between the destruction of France's old regime and the development of a mature industrial class society.

Recenzje

There is much to commend in this admirable book. The research is immaculate, and at the same time the findings are presented in an engaging and elegant manner ... As a piece of social history, the book is also superb, recreating the rich, complex, and often quaint practices of the various associations and groups that were active in the three towns