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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.



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Illustrations, pg. ix*Tables, pg. xi*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter One. Honor and Public Violence, pg. 20*Chapter Two. The Purveyance of Drink, pg. 76*Chapter Three. Customers and Their Leisure, pg. 135*Chapter Four. Drinking and Drunkenness, pg. 187*Chapter Five. The Ties of Sociability, pg. 228*Chapter Six. The Police of Public Places, pg. 269*Conclusion, pg. 311*Appendix, pg. 315*Bibliography, pg. 317*Index, pg. 329

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691608099, 978-0691608099
      ISBN10: 0691608091

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Illustrations, pg. ix*Tables, pg. xi*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter One. Honor and Public Violence, pg. 20*Chapter Two. The Purveyance of Drink, pg. 76*Chapter Three. Customers and Their Leisure, pg. 135*Chapter Four. Drinking and Drunkenness, pg. 187*Chapter Five. The Ties of Sociability, pg. 228*Chapter Six. The Police of Public Places, pg. 269*Conclusion, pg. 311*Appendix, pg. 315*Bibliography, pg. 317*Index, pg. 329

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