Author: Tiersten, Lisa
Title: Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,321 pp.. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Problem of the Marketplace; Marianne in the Department Store:Commercial Paris and the Civic Vision of the Republic; 'The Mercantile Spirit of Our Epoch': The Aesthetics Crisis of the Republic; Civilizing Consumption; Being Bourgois: The Rise of Aesthetic Individuality; Marketplace Modernism: Reinventing the Chic Parisienne; The Chic Interior: Marketplace Modernism in the Bourgois Home; Consumer Citizenship and the Republicanization of the Market; Conclusion.

Keywords: French Historical Sociology, Women Consumers, Nineteenth Century, Economics, Middle Class, Aesthetics, Bourgeoisie, France, Economic History