Del 4 i serien Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

Meat Matters

Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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In this book, Watts examines why meat mattered to a growing number of Parisians and explores the political, economic and cultural matters of the meat trade in order to illuminate more fully the changing world of Old Regime Paris.In eighteenth century Paris, municipal authorities, guild officers, merchant butchers, stall workers, and tripe dealers pledged to provide a steady supply of healthful meat to urban elites and the working poor. Meat Mattersconsiders the formation of the butcher guild and family firms, debates over royal policy and regulation, and the burgeoning role of consumerism and public health. The production and consumption of meat becomes a window on important aspects of eighteenth-century culture, society, and politics, on class relations, and on economic change. Watts's examination of eighteenth-century market culture reveals why meat mattered to Parisians, as onetime subjects became citizens.Sydney Watts is Associate Professor of history at the University of Richmond.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-07-24
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt514 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieChanging Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
Antal sidor244
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781580462112

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[Meat Matters] provides an often fascinating and very suggestive addition to the literature on the 'consumer revolution' that has rarely yet treated the literally consumable. As a student of Steven Kaplan, Watts brings a many-sided exploration to meat similar to that Kaplan has developed magisterially for bread. . . Meat Matters explores a little known but central slice of eighteenth-century Parisian life, provides a cut across political, economic, and cultural issues that were inevitably intertwined but which are too often separated analytically, and offers a morsel of a pre-revolutionary political economy that was central to Parisian subjects/citizens. Isn't leaving you wanting more the sign of the best kind of meal?