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Author Haine, W. Scott.

Title The world of the Paris cafe : sociability among the French working class, 1789-1914 / W. Scott Haine
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xiii, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 114th ser., 2
Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 114th ser., 2
Contents 1. Regulation and Constraint -- 2. Privacy in Public -- 3. Work and the Cafe: Strategies of Sociability -- 4. The Social Construction of the Drinking Experience -- 5. Publicans: From Shopkeepers to Social Entrepreneurs -- 6. The Etiquette of Cafe Sociability: Intimate Anonymity -- 7. Women and Gender Politics: Beyond Prudery and Prostitution -- 8. Behavioral Politics
Summary 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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-317) and index
Notes Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science no:114th ser., 2 0075-3904
Subject Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris.
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- France -- Paris -- Social avpects
Social interaction -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098072
LC no. 95030624
ISBN 0801851041