Paris and the spirit of 1919 [electronic resource] : consumer struggles, transnationalism and revolution / Tyler Stovall.
2012
HD8440.P2 S76 2012eb
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Title
Paris and the spirit of 1919 [electronic resource] : consumer struggles, transnationalism and revolution / Tyler Stovall.
Author
Stovall, Tyler.
ISBN
9781139377379
113937737X
9781139380232 (electronic bk.)
1139380230 (electronic bk.)
1139086278 (electronic bk.)
9781139086271 (electronic bk.)
9781107018013
1107018013
113937737X
9781139380232 (electronic bk.)
1139380230 (electronic bk.)
1139086278 (electronic bk.)
9781139086271 (electronic bk.)
9781107018013
1107018013
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 342 p.) : ill.
Other Standard Identifiers
9786613633712
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HD8440.P2 S76 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
944.3610815 944/.3610815
Summary
"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. As the site of the Peace Conference Paris was a victorious capital and a city at the centre of the world, and Tyler Stovall explores these intersections of globalisation and local revolution. The book takes as its central point the eruption of political activism in 1919, using the events of that year to illustrate broader tensions in working class, race and gender politics in Parisian, French, and ultimately global society which fuelled debates about colonial subjects and the empire. Viewing consumerism and consumer politics as key both to the revolutionary crisis and to new ideas about working class identity, and arguing against the idea that consumerism depoliticised working people, this history of local labor movements is a study in the making of the modern world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
New studies in European history.
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Paris and the Spirit of 1919 : Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism and Revolution
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: a year like no other; 1. The consumers' war; 2. The workers of Paris; 3. Remaking the French working class; 4. Spectacular politics; 5. Consumer movements; 6. Time, money, and revolution: the metalworkers' strike of June, 1919; Conclusion: legacies.