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The World of the Paris Cafe - Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914 (Paperback, New edition)
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The World of the Paris Cafe - Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
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"[Haine] invites the reader of The World of the Paris Cafe to step
up to the serving counter of a nineteenth-century Parisian cafe to
eavesdrop on the conversations and to observe the dynamics of this
unique working-class establishment ...These cafes 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 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. "As its subtitle indicates, this book is as much about
the emergence and flowering of working-class sociability as it is
about the cafes 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 cafe as an institution with
its own history ...But Haine's greatest contribution is the
impressive archival work ...The World of the Paris Cafe is a rich
study to which dix-neuviemistes in their turn can raise a
glass."-Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Nineteenth-Century French
Studies
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