Public drinking and popular culture in eighteenth-century Paris / Thomas Brennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, Thomas Edward, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Drinking customs--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Drinking customs.

Working class--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Working class.

Hotels--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Hotels.

Bars (Drinking establishments)--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Bars (Drinking establishments).

Taverns (Inns)--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Taverns (Inns).

Paris (France)--Social conditions.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages) : 8 illustrations.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Adding a new dimension to the history of mentalites and the study of popular culture, Thomas Brennan reinterprets the culture of the laboring classes in old-regime Paris through the rituals of public drinking in neighborhood taverns. He challenges the conventional depiction of lower-class debauchery and offers a reassessment of popular sociability. Using the records of the Parisian police, he lets the common people describe their own behavior and beliefs. Their testimony places the tavern at the center of working men's social existence.Central to the study is the clash of elite and popular culture as it was articulated in the different attitudes to taverns. The elites saw in taverns the indiscipline and exuberance that they condemned in popular culture. Popular testimony presented public drinking in very different terms. The elaborate rituals surrounding public drinking, its prevalence in popular sociability and recreation, all point to the importance of drink as a medium of social exchange rather than a drugged escape from misery, and to the tavern as a focal point for men's communities. Professor Brennan has elucidated the logic of both elite and popular systems of meaning and found new dignity and coherence in the culture and values of the populace.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Honor and Public Violence

Chapter Two. The Purveyance of Drink

Chapter Three. Customers and Their Leisure

Chapter Four. Drinking and Drunkenness

Chapter Five. The Ties of Sociability

Chapter Six. The Police of Public Places

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 317-328.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691608099

0691608091

9780691636580

0691636583

9781400859184

1400859182

OCLC:

889253475