Paris and the Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism and Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781107018013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 354 str.

Tyler Stovall

Opis

This history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of French political activism at the end of World War I.

Recenzje

'This book is full of argument and richly evocative of a city remade by war and roiled by a hurricane of public protest, the likes of which it had not seen since the days of the Paris Commune.' Philip Nord, The Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

Introduction: a year like no other; 1. The consumers' war; 2. The working class of Paris: definitions and identities; 3. Remaking the French working class: race, gender and exclusion; 4. Spectacular politics; 5. Consumer movements; 6. Time, money, and revolution: the metalworkers' strike of June, 1919; Conclusion: legacies.