The world of the Paris café : sociability among the French working class, 1789-1914
Title:
The world of the Paris café : sociability among the French working class, 1789-1914
JLCTITLE245:
W. Scott Haine.
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Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1996.
Physical Description:
xiii, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780801851049
9780801860706
Abstract:
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.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-317) and index.
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Contents:
Regulation and constraint -- Privacy in public -- Work and the cafe: strategies of sociability -- The social construction of the drinking experience -- Publicans: from shopkeepers to social entrepreneurs -- The etiquette of cafe sociability: intimate anonymity -- Women and gender politics: beyond prudery and prostitution -- Behavioral politics.
Chronological Term:
1800-1899