The Margins of City Life : Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851.
Focuses on the social margins of city life - the "faubourgs", or suburbs, where rural migrants and the labouring poor of French cities congregated in growing numbers in the first half of the 19th century. The text examines the cultural and social traditions which took root in these areas.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1991.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Urban Frontier; 2. City and Country: That Awkward Embrace; 3. Marginal People, Peripheral Spaces, Fearsome Faubourgs; 4. Center and Periphery: Contrasts in the West--Poitiers, Châtellerault, and La Roche-sur-Yon; 5. Quartier blanc, quartier rouge: Cultural Marginality and Popular Politics in Perpignan; 6. The Precocious, Violent Faubourgs of Nîmes; 7. Reims and the Challenge of Its Industrial Faubourgs; 8. The Conquest of the Urban Frontier; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.