The World of the Paris Café: Sociability Among the French Working Class, 1789-1914"[Haine] invites the reader of The World of the Paris Café to step up to the serving counter of a nineteenth-century Parisian café to eavesdrop on the conversations and to observe the dynamics of this unique working-class establishment . . . These cafés were far more than places to eat and drink to the great majority of working-class Parisians, who also frequented such establishments seeking shelter from authorities, exchanging and developing and sometimes enacting their ideas."-Jack B. Ridley, History: Review of New Books In The World of the Paris Café, W. Scott Haine investigates what the working-class café reveals about the formation of urban life in nineteenth-century France. Café 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 café 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. "As its subtitle indicates, this book is as much about the emergence and flowering of working-class sociability as it is about the cafés that fostered this sociability, as much about milieu as it is about lieu . . . This study is both wide-ranging and well researched . . . At once serious and lively."-Elizabeth Ezra, Labour History Review "Haine takes the café as an institution with its own history . . . But Haine's greatest contribution is the impressive archival work . . . The World of the Paris Café is a rich study to which dix-neuviémistes in their turn can raise a glass."-Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Nineteenth-Century French Studies |
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Contents
Regulation and Constraint | 1 |
Privacy in Public | 33 |
Strategies of Sociability | 59 |
The Social Construction of the Drinking Experience | 88 |
From Shopkeepers to Social Entrepreneurs | 118 |
Intimate Anonymity | 150 |
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| Title | The World of the Paris Café: Sociability Among the French Working Class, 1789-1914 The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, ISSN 0075-3904 |
| Author | W. Scott Haine |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | JHU Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0801860709, 9780801860706 |
| Length | 325 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / France History / Europe / General History / Europe / Western |
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