Making of Revolutionary Paris

Name: Making of Revolutionary Paris
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ISBN: 9780520243279

ISBN-10: 0520243277

ISBN-13: 9780520243279

Edition: 2003

Authors: David Garrioch

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The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural change. An excellent general history as well as an innovative synthesis of new research,The Making of Revolutionary Pariscombines vivid portraits of individual lives, accounts of social trends, and analyses of significant events as it explores the evolution of Parisian society during the eighteenth century and reveals the city's pivotal role in shaping the French Revolution. David Garrioch rewrites the origins of the Parisian Revolution as…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Social Order of Customary Paris



The Patterns of Urban Life



The Poor You Have with You Always



Not Servants but Workers



Each According to His Station



City Government and Popular Discontent



Bread, Police, and Protest



Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Religion and Politics



Making a New Rome



Affaires du Temps



Secularization



Urbanism or Despotism?



The Integration of the City



Plebeian Culture, Metropolitan Culture



The City and the Revolution


Epilogue: The New Paris


Notes


Selected Reading


Index