The World of the Paris Café: Sociability Among the French Working Class, 1789-1914In 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. |
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Contents
Regulation and Constraint 1 | 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 Volume 114 of Johns Hopkins University Studi The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, ISSN 0075-3904 |
| Author | W. Scott Haine |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | JHU Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0801860709, 9780801860706 |
| Length | 325 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / France History / Europe / General History / Europe / Western Social Science / Sociology / Urban |
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