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The margins of city life : explorations on the French urban frontier, 1815-1851

Focuses on the social margins of city life - the "faubourgs", or suburbs, where rural migrants and the labouring poor of French cities congregated in growing numbers in the first half of the 19th century. The text examines the cultural and social traditions which took root in these areas

Print Book, English, 1991
Oxford University Press, New York, 1991