Paris and the Spirit of 1919 - Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism and Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Tyler Stovall is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in modern and contemporary French history, in particular questions of race, colonialism and postcolonialism, labor and transnationalism. Klappentext This history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of French political activism at the end of World War I. Zusammenfassung This transnational history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of the revolutionary crisis of French society at the end of World War I! using the events of 1919 to illustrate broader tensions in working class! race and gender politics in Parisian! French and ultimately global society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: a year like no other; 1. The consumers' war; 2. The working class of Paris: definitions and identities; 3. Remaking the French working class: race, gender and exclusion; 4. Spectacular politics; 5. Consumer movements; 6. Time, money, and revolution: the metalworkers' strike of June, 1919; Conclusion: legacies.

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• Autori: Tyler Stovall, Tyler (University of California Stovall, Tyler Edward Stovall
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.03.2012
• EAN: 9781107018013
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01801-3
• Pagine: 354
• Serie: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni