Title: The World of the Paris Café
First published: 1996
Description: In The World of the Paris Cafe, W. Scott Haine investigates what the working-class cafe reveals about the formation of urban life in nineteenth-century France. Cafe 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 cafe 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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Social aspects of Bars (Drinking establishments), Bars (Drinking establishments), Social aspects, History, Social interaction, Mœurs et coutumes, Conditions sociales, Aspect social, Classe ouvrière, Uitgaansleven, Manners and customs, Trabalho e trabalhadores, Interaction sociale, Moeurs et coutumes, Histoire, Arbeidersklasse, Cafés, Cultura popular. folclore, Paris (france), social conditions, Coffeehouses, Paris (france), social life and customs, Hotels, france
Places: France, Paris, Paris (France)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: DC715 .H275 1996