Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740-1790 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) - Softcover

Garrioch, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521522315 ISBN 13: 9780521522311

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Based on the records of local police officials, this study of pre-Revolutionary Paris reveals a world which was far from anonymous. From the mass of individual disputes and incidents reported, there emerges a picture of a structured, largely self-regulating local community based first and foremost on neighbourhood ties.

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In the second half of the eighteenth century, Paris was the second largest city in Europe, with a population of some half a million. Contemporary writers described it as anonymous and chaotic, and so it must have seemed to many new arrivals from the provinces. Yet the records of the local police officials, which have remained virtually untouched for two hundred years, reveal a world which was far from anonymous, where most people went about their daily affairs in streets and shops where not only the places but also the faces were familiar. From the mass of individual disputes and incidents reported to the police in each quarter there emerges a picture of a structured, largely self-regulating local community based first and foremost on neighbourhood ties. This study explores the way that such communities functioned and were maintained, and in the process touches on many aspects of life in eighteenth-century Paris.

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Book by Garrioch David

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521522315
• ISBN 13: 9780521522311
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290