The myth of the French bourgeoisie : an essay on the social imaginary, 1750-1850 /
Sarah Maza argues that the French bourgeois of history never in fact existed, except as a critical counter-norm to French society, an imagined and threatening embodiment of materialism, self-interest, commercialism and mass culture, which defined all that France rejected
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
Harvard University Press,
2005
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Edition: | 1st ed |
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