The World of the Paris Café: Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

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

Book Overview

This study examines the working-class cafe and what it reveals about urban life in 19th-century France. It argues that cafe life was the product not just of a small elite of intellectuals and artists, but was also formed by a diverse and changing working population. Cafe life is analyzed in relation to work, family life, leisure, gender roles, and political activity, and the author offers a reinterpretation of the social history of the Parisian working classes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801851041
• ISBN13: 9780801851049
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.6" x 7.9"