Domestic Enemies : Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France /

Domestic Enemies : Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France / / Cissie Fairchilds.

This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their crim...

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Fairchilds, Cissie C.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 325 pages :); illustrations)
Notes:
  • Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
  • The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
  • Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1984
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Domestic Service in the Old Regime
  • PART I. SERVANTS
  • 2. The Servants' World: Household and Housework
  • 3. Servants Private Lives
  • 4. The Psychology of Servanthood: Servants' Attitudes toward Their Masters
  • PART II. MASTERS AND SERVANTS
  • 5. The Psychology of Mastership: Masters' Attitudes toward Their Servants
  • 6. Sexual Relationships between Master and Servant
  • 7. Relationships between Servants and Their Masters' Children
  • 8. Epilogue: The Revolution and After
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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