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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807736403321

Autore

Maza Sarah C. <1953->

Titolo

The myth of the French bourgeoisie : an essay on the social imaginary, 1750-1850 / / Sarah Maza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-04072-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Classificazione

89.42

15.65

Disciplina

305.550944

Soggetti

Middle class - France - History - 18th century

Middle class - France - History - 19th century

Society

Communities - Social Classes

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2003.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments Introduction: Is There a Class in This Text? 1. The Social Imaginary in Prerevolutionary France 2. Commerce, Luxury, and Family Love 3. Revolutionary Brotherhood and the War against Aristocracy 4. The Social World after Thermidor 5. The Political Birth of the Bourgeoisie, 1815-1830 6. The Failure of "Bourgeoisie Monarchy" Conclusion: The Bourgeois, the Jew, and the American Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sarah Maza argues that the French bourgeois of history never in fact existed, except as a critical counter-norm to French society, an imagined and threatening embodiment of materialism, self-interest, commercialism and mass culture, which defined all that France rejected.