The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851 by John M. Merriman

The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851

John M. Merriman

332 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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The Margins of Urban Life brings to life the "floating worlds of the periphery" in nineteenth-century French cities--the world of beggars, the most miserable prostitutes, ragpickers, casual labor, and unwanted people; the location of slaughterhous...

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