The World of the Paris Cafe by W Scott Haine
This rich and provocative study offers a bold reinterpretation of the social history of the working men and women of Paris.
[Haine] invites the reader of The World of the Paris Cafe to step up to the serving counter of a nineteenth-century Parisian cafe to eavesdrop on the conversations and to observe the dynamics of this unique working-class establishment.. These cafes were far more than places to eat and drink to the great majority of working-class Parisians, who also frequented such establishments seeking shelter from authorities, exchanging and developing and sometimes enacting their ideas. -- Jack B. Ridley History: Review of New Books As its subtitle indicates, this book is as much about the emergence and flowering of working-class sociability as it is about the cafes that fostered this sociability, as much about milieu as it is about lieu... This study is both wide-ranging and well researched... At once serious and lively. -- Elizabeth Ezra Labour History Review Haine takes the cafe as an institution with its own history... But Haine's greatest contribution is the impressive archival work... The World of the Paris Cafe is a rich study to which dix-neuviemistes in their turn can raise a glass. -- Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801860706 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801860709 |
| Title | The World of the Paris Cafe |
| Author | W Scott Haine |
| Series | The Johns Hopkins University Studies In Historical And Political Science |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1998-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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