{"product_id":"domestic-enemies-9781421432021","title":"Domestic Enemies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1983. This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their criminality. But it also investigates the history of the family and domestic life in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, for servants were, at least until the rise of the affectionate nuclear family in the middle of the eighteenth century, considered part of the families of those they served. Finally, this book is also an essay on the history of social relationships in the ancien régime, not only those between masters and servants but also the broader relationships between the ruling elite and the lower classes. The introduction gives basic facts about the composition of households during the Old Regime and explores the attitudes and assu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Introduction: Domestic Service in the Old Regime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Servants\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Servants' World: Household and Housework\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Servants' Private Lives\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Psychology of Servanthood: Servants' Attitudes Toward Their Masters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Masters and Servants \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Psychology of Mastership: Masters' Attitudes Toward Their Servants\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Sexual Relationships Between Master and Servant \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Relationships Between Servants and Their Masters' Children \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Epilogue: The Revolution and After\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408131662167,"sku":"9781421432021","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421432021.jpg?v=1730501700","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/domestic-enemies-9781421432021","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}