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 |
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Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 114th ser., 2
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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.
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- France -- Paris -- Social avpects
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Social interaction -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
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SUBJECT |
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098072
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LC no. |
95030624 |
ISBN |
0801851041 |
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