03168nam 2200637Ia 450 991046573890332120200520144314.01-280-52497-90-19-536241-1(CKB)2560000000294284(EBL)273038(OCoLC)476013994(SSID)ssj0000197765(PQKBManifestationID)11178813(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197765(PQKBWorkID)10170787(PQKB)11231947(StDuBDS)EDZ0000024646(MiAaPQ)EBC273038(Au-PeEL)EBL273038(CaPaEBR)ebr10278815(CaONFJC)MIL52497(EXLCZ)99256000000029428419900315d1991 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe margins of city life[electronic resource] explorations on the French urban frontier, 1815-1851 /John M. MerrimanNew York Oxford University Pressc19911 online resource (331 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-506438-0 0-19-985442-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-304) and index.Contents; 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; ZThe Margins of Urban Life brings to life the ""floating worlds of the periphery"" in nineteenth-century French cities--the world of beggars, the most miserable prostitutes, ragpickers, casual labor, and unwanted people; the location of slaughterhouses, gas factories, tanneries, and,increasingly, even executions. The men and women of the suburbs and faubourgs were long identified by urban elites and government officials with the turbulent ""dangerous classes"" who might one day fall upon the wealthy quarters of the center. Merriman analyzes and evokes the social, class,neighborhood, cultural, aMarginality, SocialFranceHistory19th centuryNeighborhoodsFranceHistory19th centurySuburban lifeFranceHistory19th centurySuburbsFranceHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Marginality, SocialHistoryNeighborhoodsHistorySuburban lifeHistorySuburbsHistory307.74/0944Merriman John M250124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465738903321The margins of city life2196530UNINA