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

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.

Author: W. Scott Haine
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 09/04/1998
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.08w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780801860706

About the Author

W. Scott Haine is a member of the faculty at Holy Names College in California and is the editor of the Social History of Alcohol Review.