The World of the Paris Caf?: Sociability Among the French Working Class, 1789-1914

By W. Scott Haine and Professor W. Scott Haine PhD

Book Overview

In The World of the Paris Caf , W. Scott Haine investigates what the working-class caf reveals about the formation of urban life in nineteenth-century France. Caf 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 caf 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801860709
• ISBN13: 9780801860706
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher