The World of the Paris Caf?: Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914
W. Scott Haine
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1998. 0801-. Paperback. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780801860706
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Title: The World of the Paris Caf?: Sociability ...
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
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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.
The World of the Paris Café traces the perceptions of the café; delineates its laws and regulations; explores café etiquette, the role of the café owner, gender relations within the café, and the pivotal contribution of café sociability to the definition of familial, professional, and political relations. Haine, a faculty member at Holy Names College in California, firmly rejects the "misérabiliste" label so often attached to 19th-century Parisian workers, advocating instead for the great creativity they mustered to cope with poverty and proletarianization. He ably shows how, by bringing together the voices of thousands of customers through common rituals, reading matter, and conversations, the café fostered a true climate of opinion and made possible the growth of a proletarian public sphere. His articulately written account, based largely on Parisian judicial and civil records and newspaper accounts of café activity, balances academic rigor with an edge of humor, exploring what he terms both the "horrible and the humorous" elements of café culture. --Bertina Loeffler
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