Paris and the Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism and Revolution (New Studies in European History)
Cambridge University Press, 3/22/2012
EAN 9781107018013, ISBN10: 1107018013
Hardcover, 320 pages, 23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
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 center of the world, and Tyler Stovall explores these intersections of globalization 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 fueled 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 depoliticized working people, this history of local labor movements is a study in the making of the modern world.
Introduction
a year like no other
1. The consumers' war
2. The working class of Paris
definitions and identities
3. Remaking the French working class
race, gender and exclusion
4. Spectacular politics
5. Consumer movements
6. Time, money, and revolution
the metalworkers' strike of June, 1919
Conclusion
legacies.