{"product_id":"becoming-bourgeois-9780801453984","title":"Becoming Bourgeois","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecoming Bourgeois\u003c\/i\u003e traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany—Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant—who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnson's latest book, in my opinion, represents his supreme intellectual achievement. Since the turn of the century, his method of studying economic history—culling data, facts, and testimony from archives; synthesizing and interpreting them by means of theories of development and crisis—has been overtaken by studies of the writings on political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Stephen Miller * H-France Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book chips away at our assumptions about a period and a class thatseem to epitomize 'separate spheres.' It convincingly demonstrates the importance of studying the inner life of a family—its taken-for-granteds, its habitus, and within the grid of kinship that provides the bedrock of class solidarity. It is also a delight to read.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Denise Z. Davidson * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing an interconnected set of families in the western French city of Vannes from the end of the seventeenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries, Christopher H. Johnson argues that kinship—especially marital strategies and the cultivation of intense familial affection—made the modern bourgeoisie.... \u003ci\u003eBecoming Bourgeois\u003c\/i\u003e is a model for combining social and cultural history. Johnson knows the traditional materials of social history—tax rolls, property transactions, and voter lists—inside and out. He is also fully in command of the état-civil and the details of the marriages, births, and deaths on the Jollivet-Galles family trees. His sympathetic and meticulous readings of the family correspondence make the archive of social and demographic history come to life.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecoming Bourgeois\u003c\/i\u003e joins the vibrant scholarship on the history of emotions, particularly on love and family in the modern era. It is as engaging as it is significant for the history of modern France and of the European bourgeoisie by a preeminent scholar of the history of social class formation.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCorrespondence and Its Limits\u003cbr\u003e Kinship, Class, Sociability, and the Interior History of the Bourgeoisie\u003cbr\u003e Love, Interest, and the Sibling Archipelago\u003cbr\u003e Gender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I. THE ASCENT (1670–1800)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 1. The Way of Print\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTalent and Marriage\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Capital\u003cbr\u003e Printers, Intellectuals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 2. Bourgeois de Vannes, Bourgeois de Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKinsmen (and Women) to the Rescue: The Saga of Jean-Nicolas Galles\u003cbr\u003e Kin and Connection in the Book Trade\u003cbr\u003e Love and Agony in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 3. The Revolutions of the Galles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEconomic Establishment: Veuve Galles and the Articulation of Power\u003cbr\u003e Expanding Horizons\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Leadership and Bourgeois Ascent\u003cbr\u003e Political Establishment: Three Families Merge\u003cbr\u003e Surviving the French Revolution (If Not Childbed Fever)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II. BOURGEOIS CULTURE (1800–1880)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 4. The Sibling Archipelago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTalented Royalists Accommodate Bonaparte\u003cbr\u003e A New Generation and a Renewed Polity\u003cbr\u003e A Sibling Courtship\u003cbr\u003e Cousin Marriage and the Political Integration of Vannes's Bourgeoisie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 5. \"Mon Adèle\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFulfillment and the Firstborn\u003cbr\u003e Establishment: A Joint Venture\u003cbr\u003e Public Service\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 6. Notre Adèle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSettling In\u003cbr\u003e The Great Crisis\u003cbr\u003e Affairs Military and Domestic\u003cbr\u003e Living Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 7. Guadeloupe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 8. The Chosen: Educating René\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePont Sal\u003cbr\u003e Exile and Redemption: A Mother’s Will\u003cbr\u003e Family Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 9. Into the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e La vie d’un polytechnicien breton\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAunt Marie: Power and Betrayal\u003cbr\u003e The Kinship Elite\u003cbr\u003e Career and Guidance\u003cbr\u003e Weathering Revolution, Again: Adèle,\u003c\/i\u003e femme politique\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFulfillment: René Wed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 10. The Legacy: Bourgeois Nation Building and Civic Leadership\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNation Building by Kinship\u003cbr\u003e Civic Leadership\u003cbr\u003e The National Stage: Combating \u003c\/i\u003ele Bretonisme\u003ci\u003eBibliographical Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405143712087,"sku":"9780801453984","price":54.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801453984.jpg?v=1730488866","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/becoming-bourgeois-9780801453984","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}