Becoming Bourgeois: Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670-1880

by Christopher H. Johnson

Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany--Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant--who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Revisiting complex issues of bourgeois class formation from the perspective of the interior lives of families, Christopher H. Johnson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801453984
• ISBN13: 9780801453984
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher