Servants And Masters In 18th Century France

Author : Sarah C. Maza
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856078
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Servants and Masters in 18th-Century France written by Sarah C. Maza and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first major study of domestic service in France from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, describing its transformation from a male-oriented occupation, aristocratic in style and often geared to public display, to one that was female, middle-class, and centered on the household. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Sarah C. Maza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-century France written by Sarah C. Maza and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first major study of domestic service in France from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, describing its transformation from a male-oriented occupation, aristocratic in style and often geared to public display, to one that was female, middle-class, and centered on the household. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Cissie Fairchilds
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142143203X
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Enemies written by Cissie Fairchilds and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983. This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their criminality. But it also investigates the history of the family and domestic life in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, for servants were, at least until the rise of the affectionate nuclear family in the middle of the eighteenth century, considered part of the families of those they served. Finally, this book is also an essay on the history of social relationships in the ancien régime, not only those between masters and servants but also the broader relationships between the ruling elite and the lower classes. The introduction gives basic facts about the composition of households during the Old Regime and explores the attitudes and assumptions that underlay the employment of servants. It also shows how both these attitudes and the households themselves changed dramatically in the last decades before the French Revolution. Part 1 is devoted to the servants themselves. One chapter deals with their lives within their employers' households: their work, their living conditions, their socializing and leisure-time activities. A second examines their private lives: their social origins, marriage and family patterns, their moneymaking and their criminality. And a third explores their relationships with and attitudes toward their masters. In part 2, the focus shifts to an examination of master–servant relationships from the masters' point of view. The first chapter deals with master–servant relationships in general by discussing the factors that determined how employers treated their domestics. The second and third chapters explore two special relationships: masters' sexual relationships with their servants and their relationships with the servants who cared for them in childhood. The epilogue traces the impact of the French Revolution on domestic service and sketches some of the changes in the household that were to come in the nineteenth century.

Author : Sue Peabody
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195158663
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There are No Slaves in France written by Sue Peabody and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancient Regime examines the paradox of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Black slaves who came to France as domestic servants of colonial masters challenged their servitude in courts. On the basis of the Freedom Principle, ̃a judicial maxim granting freedom to any slave who set foot in the kingdom, hundreds of slaves won their freedom.

Author : Henry C. Clark
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600000543
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Rochefoucauld and the Language of Unmasking in Seventeenth-century France written by Henry C. Clark and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristina Booker
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611488648
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menials written by Kristina Booker and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray used literary servants to critique what they saw as problematic economic and social practices. A cultural history of economic ideology as well as a literary history of domestic service, Menials traces the role of the domestic servant as a representation of the relationship between the master’s ideal self and the cultural forces that threaten it.

Author : Mikael Alm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000415503
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden written by Mikael Alm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make claims and transgress formal boundaries. This was not least the case for the revolutionary decades of the late eighteenth century, the period in focus of this book. Unlike previous studies on sumptuary laws and other legal actions taken by governments and formal power holders, this book offers a broader and more everyday perspective on late eighteenth-century sartorial discourse. In 1773, there was a publicly announced prize competition on the advantages and disadvantages of a national dress in Sweden. Departing from the submitted replies, the study opens a window onto the sartorial world. Several fields of cultural history are brought together: social culture in terms of order, hierarchies, and notions of difference; sartorial culture with contemporary views on dress and moral aspects of sartorial practices; and visual culture in terms of sartorial means of making a difference and the emphasis on the necessity of a legible social order.

Author : Jennine Hurl-Eamon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Jennine Hurl-Eamon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise historical overview of the existing historiography of women from across eighteenth-century Europe covers women of all ages, married and single, rich and poor. During the 18th century, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, protoindustrialization, and colonial conquest made their marks on women's lives in a variety of ways. Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century Europe examines women of all ages and social backgrounds as they experienced the major events of this tumultuous period of sweeping social and political change. The book offers an inclusive portrayal of women from across Europe, surveying nations from Portugal to the Russian Empire, from Finland to Italy, including the often overlooked women of Eastern Europe. It depicts queens, an empress, noblewomen, peasants, and midwives. Separate chapters on family, work, politics, law, religion, arts and sciences, and war explore the varying contexts of the feminine experience, from the most intimate aspects of daily life to broad themes and conditions.

Author : Catriona Macleod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009359355
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whole Economy written by Catriona Macleod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance.

Author : Louise E. Robbins
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867538
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots written by Louise E. Robbins and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Adds a new dimension to our understanding of eighteenth-century France by investigating the provenance, treatment, and fate of exotic animals living in Paris in the 1700s."" -- American Historical Review.