The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851
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The 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195064380
ISBN13:9780195064384
Release Date:April 1991
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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