Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris

by Sydney Watts

In this book, Watts examines why meat mattered to a growing number of Parisians and explores the political, economic and cultural matters of the meat trade in order to illuminate more fully the changing world of Old Regime Paris.

In eighteenth century Paris, municipal authorities, guild officers, merchant butchers, stall workers, and tripe dealers pledged to provide a steady supply of healthful meat to urban elites and the working poor. Meat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580462111
• ISBN13: 9781580462112
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"