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Paris and the spirit of 1919 : consumer struggles, transnationalism, and revolution / Tyler Stovall.
Lippincott Library HD8440.P2 S76 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stovall, Tyler, 1954-2021.
- Series:
- New studies in European history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Working class.
- Labor movement--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Labor movement.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- History.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Popular fronts.
- France--Paris.
- Popular fronts--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Strikes and lockouts--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Paris (France)--History--20th century.
- Paris (France).
- France--History--1914-1940.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "This transnational history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of the revolutionary crisis of French society at the end of World War I. As the site of the Peace Conference Paris was a victorious capital and a city at the centre of the world, and Tyler Stovall explores these intersections of globalisation and local revolution. The book takes as its central point the eruption of political activism in 1919, using the events of that year to illustrate broader tensions in working class, race and gender politics in Parisian, French, and ultimately global society which fuelled debates about colonial subjects and the empire. Viewing consumerism and consumer politics as key both to the revolutionary crisis and to new ideas about working class identity, and arguing against the idea that consumerism depoliticised working people, this history of local labor movements is a study in the making of the modern world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: a year like no other; 1. The consumers' war; 2. The workers of Paris; 3. Remaking the French working class; 4. Spectacular politics; 5. Consumer movements; 6. Time, money, and revolution: the metalworkers' strike of June, 1919; Conclusion: legacies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and an index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107018013
- 1107018013
- OCLC:
- 744977439
- Online:
- Cover image
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