The World of the Paris Café: Sociability Among the French Working Class, 1789-1914

ISBN-13: 9780801860706 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str.

Dr W. Scott Haine

Opis

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.