Domestic Enemies : Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France /
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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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019
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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