The bourgeois citizen in nineteenth-century France : gender, sociability, and the uses of emulation / Carol E. Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Carol E.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--France--History--19th century.

Middle class.

History.

France.

Physical Description:

viii, 268 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Bourgeois citizen in 19th century France

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

This book analyzes the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Carol E. Harrison addresses the construction of class and gender identities, and shows how the sociable interaction of male citizens was the crucial bridge between the destruction of France's old regime and the development of a mature industrial class society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198207778

OCLC:

41926493