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.
| ISBN: | 9780801860706 |
| Publication date: | 4th September 1998 |
| Author: | W Scott Haine |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 325 pages |
| Series: | The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political |
| Genres: |
European history |