The bourgeois citizen in nineteenth-century Europe : gender, sociability, and the uses of emulation /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York:
Oxford University Press,
2003
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| Series: | Oxford Historical Monographs
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| Item Description: | Contents: 1. Emulation: class, gender, and context -- 2. Contesting the public sphere: associations and the government in nineteenth-century France -- 3. The bourgeois as scientist and the sociability of the learned society -- 4. Honest amusements -- 5. Patronage: emulation for the working class -- 6. Charitable imperatives -- 7. Emulating the elite: association and the petit bourgeois -- 8. Conclusion: the limits of emulation |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 268 p. ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-254) and index |
| ISBN: | 0198207778 |